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Joost De Cock b34a2ee2ed feat: Flat import of markdown repo
This is a flat (without history) import of (some of) the content
from our markdown module.

We've imported this without history because the repo contains our
blog posts and showcases posts content prior to porting them to strapi.

Since this contains many images, it would balloon the size of this repo
to import the full history.

Instead, please refer to the history of the (archived) markdown repo
at: https://github.com/freesewing/markdown
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Adding text developers Shows you how to add text to your pattern

SVG is pretty great, but its text handling leaves much to be desired.

To abstract away the intricacies of adding text to an SVG document, FreeSewing lets you add text to patterns by adding it to the attributes of points and paths.

All you have to do is set the data-text attribute to the text you want to add to the pattern:

points.anchor = new Point(100, 25)
  .attr("data-text", "freesewingIsMadeByJoostDeCockAndContributors")
  .attr("data-text-class", "center");

You may have noticed that the text we inserted isn't the text that's shown. That is because, in line with our best practices we allow translation of our pattern by inserting a key that is used to lookup the string in the language of the pattern, using the i18n plugin.

You can use the same approach to add text to a path:

points.B = new Point(10, 50);
points.BCp2 = new Point(40, 10);
points.C = new Point(90, 30);
points.CCp1 = new Point(50, 90);

paths.example = new Path()
  .move(points.B)
  .curve(points.BCp2, points.CCp1, points.C)
  .attr("class", "canvas")
  .attr("data-text", "freesewingIsMadeByJoostDeCockAndContributors")
  .attr("data-text-class", "text-xs center");