Text exports one character per <text> element

First off, just wanted to say this is groundbreaking stuff and you’re a genius. So thank you for creating this library. Now, on to my issue…

When exporting via bodymovin after having disabled the glyphs option, each character of text is wrapped in its own <text> element, e.g. the word “the” would output like this:

<text>t</text>
<text>h</text>
<text>e</text>

Is there a reason for this or a way to force text to not be wrapped in such a way? It makes manipulating the generated SVG much more problematic. I would prefer it spits out whole lines at a time and only performs transform-style positioning on those blocks of text where necessary.

[bodymovin]

Added a single text element with tSpans if layer doesn’t use animators.

[bodymovin]

The reason for this is text animators and tracking, indeed. I’ve tried using tspans wrapped around each character but I haven’t found a good way for animating them. I’ll try to see if I can use a single text element if the layer has no animators. Regarding SEO and accessibility, I’m also looking for a way to support them on every situation. Suggestions are welcome 😃