Am 23.01.2014 00:43, schrieb Anton Sherwood:
> I have a scene concept involving centred text, and I want to try it with
> many different fonts (using a Python program to write the .pov files).
> Is there a way to center text without measuring its width by eye, every
> time?  Perhaps a function that returns the dimensions of a bounding box?

Not exactly, but the functions min_extent(MyObj) and max_extent(MyObj) 
do indeed return the "lowest" and "highest" corner, respectively, of the 
bounding box, so the following line should do the job:

#local Width = (max_extent(MyTextObj)-min_extent(MyTextObj)).x;

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