Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <38517f75@news.povray.org>, "AC" <amb### [at] teliacom> wrote:
>
> > Not exactly what I mean........
> > line from a povfile:
> >

> >  <0,0,0>
> > scale .1 }  rotate <0,0,0>}
> >

> > Is it possible to do somthing like this in Povray.....
> >
> >  text { ttf "c:\windows\fonts\Times.ttf"                "N" + chr(128) +
> > "PP"          .1, 0 pigment {rgb <0,0,0> scale .1 }  rotate <0,0,0>}
> >
> > I think you get the idea
>
> Maybe that character can only be accessed with the Unicode patch by Jon
> Cruz. It is included in the Superpatch, although it apparently has some
> problems with the Mac.
>
> --
> Chris Huff
> e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
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Yes, the Unipatch should do the job. It's in the superpatch.
See here for some simple docs
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/unipatch/

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/unipatch/unipatch.jpg


But it is very strange that chr(128) should work for that. But... that's
because it happens to be the location of the capital letter 'A' with diaeresis
in the Apple roman font encoding, and the official POV-Ray goes for the first
Apple encoding table in all fonts... (try a different font and you might get
it popping up in a different location)

Oh, and the Unipatch doesn't really have a problem with the Mac. Just with
poorly done Mac fonts :-) . But in the version that I'm almost done with, that
is fixed. Along with some bugfixes that will cause even the standard POV-Ray
to choke on most newer Mac fonts.

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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