On 05/20/2011 04:46 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> [after reading Thorten's message above]
> ... and which shows, there is a semantic problem, difficult to solve in
> fact. Increased by the number of non-native speakers among us.. I have the
> impression that many people (me included) not always realise that Object
> Modifiers is much more than just transformations. :-)  The contained_by in
> isosurfaces is also an object modifier, strictly speaking.
>
> I think that in this case, there should be a little sentence in the docs
> just stressing that all isosurface parameters have to be placed *before*
> any object modifier.
>
> I hope this helps....
>
> Thomas
>
>
ah ... finally something of substance! (instead of all this childish 
posturing) I added a "Note" just after the syntax diagram:

http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Reference_Section_4.2#Isosurface_Object

oh and btw the clue that clipped_by is indeed an object modifier is in 
the first sentence:

http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Reference_Section_4.5#Clipped_By

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