svg text is not split by newlines

> I have an svg file where several lines of text, in a list format
> essentially do not get split at the end of each line

Did you write that SVG file yourself, using a plain text editor? If so, please read the SVG specification about the <text> object and handling of white-space in SVG text elements (else I suggest to contact the author of the file): newlines are always removed (as well as tabs, leading spaces, multiple space characters) by default; with the attribute 'xml-space="preserve"' all newline and tab characters will still be converted into space characters, but leading and multiple spaces not collapsed into a single space.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#WhiteSpace>

For multiline text you can place the lines either inside separate <text> elements or inside separate <tspan> elements within the <text> element. As far as I understand, in both cases you have to take care of the vertical (relative) positioning (<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#CurrentTextPosition>).

Alternatively rely on Inkscape and paste the list from the clipboard into a regular text object.

> When I manually enter line breaks into the string where they
> should be, the list comes out correctly.

If you edit the text inside Inkscape, the multiline text is split into correctly positioned <tspan>'s for each line (you can verify the change in Inkscape with 'Edit > XML Editor'.

suv,
Thanks very much for your quick reply.
I did not write the file. At first, I assumed it was an Inkscape issue
because the text does look right when I view the file in Firefox and Visio.
But I just tried it in OpenOffice Draw and got a similar result, so I
suppose the author of the svg generation software I am getting this from,
may need to do some tinkering.

Just for clarity, see the attached files

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:49 PM, ~suv <email address hidden>
wrote:
> Your question #132281 on Inkscape changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/132281
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> ~suv proposed the following answer:
>> I have an svg file where several lines of text, in a list format
>> essentially do not get split at the end of each line
>
> Did you write that SVG file yourself, using a plain text editor? If so,
please read the SVG specification about the <text> object and handling of
white-space in SVG text elements (else I suggest to contact the author of
the file): newlines are always removed (as well as tabs, leading spaces,
multiple space characters) by default; with the attribute
'xml-space="preserve"' all newline and tab characters will still be
converted into space characters, but leading and multiple spaces not
collapsed into a single space.
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#WhiteSpace>
>
> For multiline text you can place the lines either inside separate <text>
> elements or inside separate <tspan> elements within the <text> element.
> As far as I understand, in both cases you have to take care of the
> vertical (relative) positioning
> (<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#CurrentTextPosition>).
>
> Alternatively rely on Inkscape and paste the list from the clipboard
> into a regular text object.
>
>> When I manually enter line breaks into the string where they
>> should be, the list comes out correctly.
>
> If you edit the text inside Inkscape, the multiline text is split into
> correctly positioned <tspan>'s for each line (you can verify the change
> in Inkscape with 'Edit > XML Editor'.
>
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> because the text does look right when I view the file in Firefox

That's odd - when I viewed the test file I created following your description, in Firefox or Safari, it didn't render the newlines either :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   version="1.1"
   width="400"
   height="400"
   id="svg3975">
<text x="0" y="40" >
CMULines_ID
Type
Symbol
Notes
RuleID
Override</text>
</svg>

Can you paste the relevant snippet here? Or make the SVG file available (e.h. using the free image hosting service <http://imgh.us/> which accepts and serves SVG)?

Example file is here:

http://imgh.us/ThomsExample.svg

It would appear that the unit identifier "em" in the dy attribute value is
not getting recognized. I tried others and they work. By inference does this
mean that a relative font-size is not being set or set incorrectly?

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:31 PM, ~suv
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Your question #132281 on Inkscape changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/132281
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> ~suv proposed the following answer:
> > because the text does look right when I view the file in Firefox
>
> That's odd - when I viewed the test file I created following your
> description, in Firefox or Safari, it didn't render the newlines either
> :
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
> <svg
> xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
> version="1.1"
> width="400"
> height="400"
> id="svg3975">
> <text x="0" y="40" >
> CMULines_ID
> Type
> Symbol
> Notes
> RuleID
> Override</text>
> </svg>
>
>
> Can you paste the relevant snippet here? Or make the SVG file available
> (e.h. using the free image hosting service <http://imgh.us/> which accepts
> and serves SVG)?
>
> --
> If this answers your question, please go to the following page to let us
> know that it is solved:
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/132281/+confirm?answer_id=2
>
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> following page to enter your feedback:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/132281
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Could be the same issue as reported in

Bug #168845 “<text> position attributes should handle relative units”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168845>

or precisely this one:

Bug #262528 “Problem with <tspan> element and attribute dy”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/262528>