"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
news:chr### [at] netplexaussieorg...
> In article <3b71c869$1@news.povray.org>,
>  "Scott Hill" <nos### [at] nospamthanks> wrote:
>
> >     Yes, of course... Though, the text object enhancements seem the
better
> > way to do it - keep the text alignment as a property of the text
object...
>
> Why is that good? Any object can be aligned, not just text objects.
>

    Oh, I'm not saying that the object bounds features should be removed and
the text alignment features kept. More that, alignment is a property of text
and it would seem to be more logical to have this ability built into the
text object... Imagine yourself as new POV user - you just want to get some
fancy textured text in your scene - you check out the docs on text, write
your script, and then think "Now I want that bit of text centered, that bit
left aligned and that other bit right aligned..." - with text alignment
commands the solution is obvious, without, it's not so obvious...

    Anyhow, it's not all that important, I just recall reading the text
alignment bit in the MegaPOV docs and thinking "Cool... a nice, easy, way to
align text...".

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Scott Hill.
Software Engineer.
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