ISSUE-286: Extend the background area behind rendered text to improve readability

rowPadding

Extend the background area behind rendered text to improve readability

State:
CLOSED
Product:
TTML2
Raised by:
Nigel Megitt
Opened on:
2013-10-23
Description:
The current rendering rules for TTML allow for a background colour to be specified, to be painted behind rendered text. However the edges of this background area are coincident with the foreground text boundary, or with the entire region, neither of which meets all use cases. A common practice in rendering subtitles against video is to extend slightly the background area painted behind the foreground text, e.g. by the width of one space character [1].

[1] https://industry.youview.com/resources/YouView_Core_Technical_Specification_1.0.pdf section 4.4.4.4

No proposed solution is available to address the general case of this, which has some complexity e.g. what to do if a <span> has a different background colour from its parent <p> and the text in the span is wrapped over a line. However the specific use case can be addressed either by specifying a generic rendering rule to cover all text in a region or even a document, e.g. a tts:rowPadding attribute with a length value. Alternative proposals for indicating the requirement for presentation processors to use this rendering behaviour are welcomed!
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  3. {agenda} TTWG Meeting 2015-01-08 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2015-01-07)
  4. {agenda} TTWG Meeting 2014-12-18 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-12-17)
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  6. Re: {minutes} TTWG Meeting 2014-12-04 (from glenn@skynav.com on 2014-12-04)
  7. {minutes} TTWG Meeting 2014-12-04 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-12-04)
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  9. CORRECTION to {minutes} TTWG Meeting 28/10/2014 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-11-21)
  10. RE: {minutes} TTWG Meeting 27/10/2014 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-10-29)
  11. {agenda} TTWG Meeting 25/9/2014 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-09-24)
  12. Re: {agenda} TTWG Meeting 11/9/2014 (from glenn@skynav.com on 2014-09-10)
  13. {agenda} TTWG Meeting 11/9/2014 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-09-10)
  14. {agenda} TTWG Meeting 4/9/2014 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-09-03)
  15. {agenda} TTWG Meeting 31/7/2014 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-07-30)
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  19. RE: {agenda} TTWG Meeting 19/6/2014 (from mdolan@newtbt.com on 2014-06-18)
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  21. RE: {agenda} TTWG Meeting 12/6/2014 (from mdolan@newtbt.com on 2014-06-12)
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  42. {minutes} TTWG Meeting 20/3/2014 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-03-20)
  43. Re: {agenda} TTWG Meeting 20/3/2014 (from glenn@skynav.com on 2014-03-19)
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  45. {agenda} TTWG Meeting 27/2/2014 (from nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk on 2014-02-26)
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Related notes:

Nigel: P1
Glenn: having some images would help to understand

Philippe Le Hégaret, 24 Oct 2013, 15:52:55

Owner is Andreas + Nigel

Nigel Megitt, 28 Oct 2013, 11:57:49

[pal]: CSS folks mentioned box-decoration-break as a possibiliy

11 Nov 2013, 06:25:47

Examples, proposed syntax and mapping to HTML/CSS now added to https://www.w3.org/wiki/TTML/changeProposal015#box-decoration-break

Nigel Megitt, 19 Mar 2014, 13:32:02

[nigel]: (TTWG F2F today) We will support the EBU line padding proposal with the combination of padding on inline content elements and box-decoration-break.

28 Oct 2014, 20:30:58

Addressed [1] by defining that padding on span is cloned at line break boundaries.

[1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/ttml/rev/38897327d190

Glenn Adams, 1 Dec 2014, 02:31:03

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