Comment 27 for bug 269002

    yes, I saw that the xlink:href was not having the desired effect, but was not sure what to do about it. I am not a big fan of text-on-path because it very often leads to text that is unreadable because it is wrapped around a sharp 90 degree corner. I would prefer to see text in a straight line. Currently the position of the text is calculated by taking a numerical average of all the vertices in the polygon that is used, ignoring the Bezier control arms. This average may be offset a bit towards the origin of the path because of the fact that quite often the start point and end point of the path are duplicated. This does not affect the area calculation but will affect the calculation of the text position. I don't think the effect is serious enough to be concerned about, but that's because I care only about numbers, nothing else matters to me.
     any suggestions as to how to proceed?