On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:12:37 -0500, Bob Hughes wrote:
>"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
>news:395daed5@news.povray.org...
>| In article <chrishuff-6450F5.18504930062000@news.povray.org> , Chris Huff
>| <chr### [at] maccom>  wrote:
>|
>| > 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...
>|
>| And you might call this the recommended way for POV-Ray 3.5 :-)
>
>That sounds like a tendency toward lean and fast source code being
>contemplated then, if I embellish your words right.

You embellish correctly.  We are thinking about supplying some macros to 
simplify the process a bit, though.

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

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