re: [cgmo-webcgm] POLL ISSUE - text style properties (part 1 - character-height)

[Don Larson <dlarson@cgmlarson.com>]

Lofton,

I prefer as recommended, A

Regards, 
Don.

  > All,

  > This issue is similar to the stroke weight issue.

  > What should WebCGM say about the allowable values and treatment of the
  >  character height style property of WebCGM set through the DOM?
  >    a)  Limit value of both NVCC and relative scale to >0?
  >    b)  Allow zero values for both NVDC and relative scale and adopt CGM
  >  conventions?
  > Recommendation a)

  > Summary

  > Currently the WebCGM 2.0 DOM chapter has a restriction of the allowable
  >  values for character height.  It limits the relative scale stroke width to
  >  >0%, but doesn't address absolute NVDC as far as I can tell.   Both the 
CGM
  >  standard (informative Annex D) and the WebCGM 2.0 Profile says the
  >  treatment of a zero-valued Character Height Attribute Element is "minimum
  >  available".

  > thx...Dave
  > Technical Fellow - Graphics/Digital Data Interchange
  > Boeing Commercial Airplane
  > 206.544.8876, fax 206.544.9590
  > david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com