In article <3988a133$1@news.povray.org>, "Alan Nickerson" 
<ani### [at] iversoftcom> wrote:

> I cannot seem to get an Area light to actually emit light as if it was a
> single row of lights, to simulate a florescent light tube.

The area light feature only affects shadows...for other lighting 
calculations, they are ordinary point lights.
There are two other ways to do what you want: a string of many point 
lights(slow and memory consuming), or a true area light made by using a 
high-ambient object and turning radiosity on(also slow and memory 
consuming, but can often be better than the other option).

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