Is there any way to save text as <text> in svg

[w-zhiwei]

Seems like texts are converted to \<path> when exporting using CarioMakie. It would be better if it can be restored in native \<text> so that font size and font family can be controlled and altered by CSS without re-plotting.

[asinghvi17]

I'm not sure this is something we can do, for multiple reasons:

• If Cairo is not already showing text as text in SVG, unless there's some specialized solution I don't think we can override that. Note that Cairo does show text in PDF as text, and you can see that if you convert a CairoMakie pdf to .txt using pdftotext.
• Since we do text layouting in Makie itself, for multiple reasons, any change in font or size would break the text, since the positions of the individual characters would remain constant.

Someone else might know more on this topic but as far as I understand it, this is not easy to do.

Have you considered an alternative solution? It's a bit hacky, but you could just render different SVGs for each CSS mode if you know them in advance.