A somewhat dated (with regard to the timeline of SVG recommendations actually published by the W3C) and technical explanation is included in the original FAQ, describing the long-standing, known issue / consequences of a decision made a long time ago by the 'Inkscape' project to implement a feature (flowed text) based on a draft version of a (unfinished and later dropped) SVG specification (SVG 1.2 never replaced current REC SVG 1.1, the next REC will be SVG2): http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_about_flowed_text.3F
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A somewhat dated (with regard to the timeline of SVG recommendations actually published by the W3C) and technical explanation is included in the original FAQ, describing the long-standing, known issue / consequences of a decision made a long time ago by the 'Inkscape' project to implement a feature (flowed text) based on a draft version of a (unfinished and later dropped) SVG specification (SVG 1.2 never replaced current REC SVG 1.1, the next REC will be SVG2): wiki.inkscape. org/wiki/ index.php/ FAQ#What_ about_flowed_ text.3F
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