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  Re: POV-ray (text) editor for beginners  
From: Tim Attwood
Date: 13 Nov 2008 22:47:00
Message: <491cf4b4$1@news.povray.org>
"SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
news:web.491cd42e34cbc438849303c80@news.povray.org...
> Alessio Sangalli <ale### [at] manowebcom> wrote:
>> Hi, every night before going to bed I teach a little bit of POV-ray to
>> my wife.
>>
>> The most annoying problem is that everytime she wants to see the scene
>> she has to save, go to the shell, issue the povray command with some
>> (for her) cryptic options and then open up an image viewer (or
>> imagemagick's "display") to see the result. For an animation, it's even
>> more complicated.
>>
>> Because my target here is not teach her how to script in bash but how to
>> write scenes in POV-ray, I would feel much better if there was an
>> "integrated" editor for POV-ray with buttons to select options and start
>> rendering.
>>
>> Any suggestion? PS I do *not* want a CAD-like or "visual" editor...
>>
>> bye
>> as
>
> Are you using Windows?
>
> -Mike

From the BASH comment I assume he's in Linux of some sort.
You could try the windows version under Wine, I'm not sure
but it probably would work.
There's also POVclipse... that's a POV syntax version of Eclipse,
you could give that a try.


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