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9 Aug 2024 21:16:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pov-Ray 3.5 InfO?  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 30 Jun 2000 19:50:43
Message: <chrishuff-6450F5.18504930062000@news.povray.org>
In article <395d2f99@news.povray.org>, "Bob Hughes" 
<per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote:

> Whoa, hey... a bounding box would show bottom to top of text too, if 
> I'm not mistaken, meaning it too could be aligned.  Front to back 
> also.  Wish I were astute enough to program that in, but alas...

You don't need to program to do it...MegaPOV also has min_extent() and 
max_extent() functions, which provide you with the corners of the 
bounding box. Then you can just translate the text to position.
Makes the centering keywords a bit redundant...

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