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9 Aug 2024 21:15:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pov-Ray 3.5 InfO?  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 30 Jun 2000 18:49:57
Message: <slrn8lq9mr.22g.ron.parker@linux.parkerr.fwi.com>
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:46:19 +0200, Fabien Mosen wrote:
>TigerHawk wrote:
>> 
>> Man, no kidding - I wonder why that wasn't done when text was first introduced
>> into Pov-Ray? 
>
>Because the authors of the text-object hadn't much clue about how
>to do it, given the rather unclear docs availiable about truetype
>specifications.

I doubt that.  It's pretty simple, and of course they had to know the
bounding box of the object, so alignment is simple.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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