Thanks for getting back to me with a complete answer. The immediate things I 
notice are these:

POV has no mechanism for painting 2D text on to a surface. There are all kinza 
ways to paint patterns and pre-made images on to surfaces, but no way to lay 
down simple 2D text. This seems like a major flaw to me.

There is a very limited set of string manipulation and calculation functions 
available withing POV script. For instance, the book mentions strlen in talking 
about other string functions, but strlen itself isn't available. This would be 
very helpful in figuring out how to position text without a lot of trial and 
error. Heavy accent on the error.

The book references you gave me don't point to anything. My POV for Windows 
(3.6.1) help file goes up to 3.4.9, but you mention sections 3.4.11 and 12. The 
online help is even worse, since Chapter 3 is the reference in the help file, 
but it's about windows in the online docs.

How do I find more info?

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