POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Pov-Ray 3.5 InfO? : Re: Pov-Ray 3.5 InfO? Server Time
9 Aug 2024 21:12:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pov-Ray 3.5 InfO?  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 30 Jun 2000 20:03:55
Message: <395d356b@news.povray.org>
"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
news:chrishuff-6450F5.18504930062000@news.povray.org...
| In article <395d2f99@news.povray.org>, "Bob Hughes"
| <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote:
|
| > Whoa, hey... a bounding box would show bottom to top of text too, if
| > I'm not mistaken, meaning it too could be aligned.  Front to back
| > also.  Wish I were astute enough to program that in, but alas...
|
| You don't need to program to do it...MegaPOV also has min_extent() and
| max_extent() functions, which provide you with the corners of the
| bounding box. Then you can just translate the text to position.
| Makes the centering keywords a bit redundant...

Uh, yeah, but a keyword is so quick and easy once the feature exists inside of
POV source code

  :-)


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