> You have a very common misconception about the user manual here:  The user
> manual is *not* a specification of how POV-Ray should behave, and neither is
> the assumption that everything the manual does not explicitly forbid legal.
> The user manual should only be read such that everything it explicitly says
> is allowed may be used.
I can understand that the documentation is written in such a way. 
However that is not clear, IMO, because there's a section called 
"POV-Ray Reference". From my understanding of the word "reference" 
denotes a complete explanation of something. But while I may be wrong 
here (because I'm not a native English speaker), I think that the 
following sentence, found at the beginning of chapter "2.2 Scene 
Description Language" gives the same impression:

"The reference section describes the POV-Ray scene description language. 
It is supposed to be used as a reference for looking up things. It does 
not contain detailed explanations on how scenes are written or how 
POV-Ray is used. It just explains *all* features, their syntax, 
applications, *limits*, drawbacks, etc."

This has, however, nothing to do with my original report, so I'm setting 
up a F'up2 povray.documentation.inbuilt.


Have a nice weekend,
Florian
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