In article <40047fa1$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Hughes, B." <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:

> A macro already exists in the 3.5 includes for doing something almost like
> that. I've modified Ron Parker's script to place text onto a cylinder
> surface, a very minor change of adding a 10th parameter called L (for Label)
> which just rotates the font character in a direction to lay the correct way.

It rotates it by a given angle around the tangent to the circle? Or it's 
a boolean flag to rotate by 90 degrees? The former would be a lot more 
useful, and little or no extra work.


> I'll post it to p.t.s-f. group, since explaining how to make the change and
> use it might not be completely understandable if I don't show all the pov
> script itself, and maybe other people will find it useful too. Look for
> subject line "modified circle text macro". And hopefully I won't be stepping
> on any toes by posting an already included macro, albeit changed slightly.

Of course not...improvements are always a good thing. It'd be a good 
idea to change the name slightly, though.

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