From e15a0fb2ed961b5c821af67d1c29d9d826bc1eaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Siegel <jonathan@Jonathans-MacBook-Pro.local>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:55:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Added Textpath attributes in Text support

---
 svg.go | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/svg.go b/svg.go
index ab68939..ff92464 100644
--- a/svg.go
+++ b/svg.go
@@ -339,6 +339,24 @@ func (svg *SVG) Text(x int, y int, t string, s ...string) {
 	svg.println(`</text>`)
 }
 
+// Adding Text begin/end for better Textpath control
+// Without this could not set a startOffset=XX% in Textpath block                
+/* Usage: 
+  svg.Path("M250 250 L 400,250", `id="poly1"`, `stroke="red"`, "stroke-dasharray: 5")
+  svg.TextBegin(`fill="black"`, `text-anchor="middle"`, `font-size="6pt"`)
+  svg.Textpath("This is Centered!", "#poly1", `startOffset="50%"`)
+  svg.TextEnd()
+*/
+func (svg *SVG) TextBegin(s ...string) { svg.println(`<text %s`, endstyle(s, ">")) }
+func (svg *SVG) TextEnd() { svg.println(`</text>`) }
+func (svg *SVG) TextpathInner(t string, pathid string, s ...string) {
+  svg.printf("<textPath xlink:href=\"%s\" %s", endstyle(s, ">"), pathid)
+  xml.Escape(svg.Writer, []byte(t))
+  svg.println(`</textPath>`)
+}
+
+
+
 // Textpath places text optionally styled text along a previously defined path
 // Standard Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#TextPathElement
 func (svg *SVG) Textpath(t string, pathid string, s ...string) {

From aa4d31f9a654b7bea57f6746637a9266569f0b5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Siegel <jonathan@Jonathans-MacBook-Pro.local>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:59:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fixed implementation errors.

---
 svg.go | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/svg.go b/svg.go
index ff92464..4852288 100644
--- a/svg.go
+++ b/svg.go
@@ -347,10 +347,10 @@ func (svg *SVG) Text(x int, y int, t string, s ...string) {
   svg.Textpath("This is Centered!", "#poly1", `startOffset="50%"`)
   svg.TextEnd()
 */
-func (svg *SVG) TextBegin(s ...string) { svg.println(`<text %s`, endstyle(s, ">")) }
+func (svg *SVG) TextBegin(s ...string) { svg.printf(`<text %s`, endstyle(s, ">")) }
 func (svg *SVG) TextEnd() { svg.println(`</text>`) }
 func (svg *SVG) TextpathInner(t string, pathid string, s ...string) {
-  svg.printf("<textPath xlink:href=\"%s\" %s", endstyle(s, ">"), pathid)
+  svg.printf("<textPath xlink:href=\"%s\" %s", pathid, endstyle(s, ">"))
   xml.Escape(svg.Writer, []byte(t))
   svg.println(`</textPath>`)
 }