Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Smws nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-12-04 22:51:
> > So, I have several questions, and this group has been extremely helpful
> > before:
> >
> > 1)I was wanting to put the greek letter lowercase "pi" on a sphere, and I
> > was wondering if any of the ttfs included with POV had anything besides the
> > standard ASCII. If not, are there free ttfs that do? If so, how would I
> > reference that character in calling the text object? How can I see what
> > letters are in a given ttf, anyway?
> >
> > 2)In the same vein, is there an elegant way to get a random text stream? I'm
> > filling a sphere with text and it would be nice to use this. I thought of
> > referencing an array with each character as an element, but that seems
> > tedious to construct (maybe I'm just really lazy).
> You can use the ascii code directly.
> >
> > 3)In the course of making this scene, I have hacked together some macros for
> > writing and engraving text (procedurally) on a sphere in various ways. It
> > was time-consuming for me, as I am fairly new to programming, but if
> > there's any interest I would be glad to post it. (For example I have a
> > version of the colors.inc demo scene that writes the name of the colors on
> > the spheres :))
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Stefan Sittler
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> The greek leter pi is not in the provided fonts. It is present in some other fonts,
mainly
> mathematical themed ones. It's also available in extended unicode fonts, like arial
uni, at a
> position well past 256. (that font include all of the windings and other extra
characters sets
> besside arabic, chinese and others languages) You need to add charset utf8 in
global_settings to
> enable unicode use.
> Take a look in the fonts folder to find what font you need.
>
> --
> Alain
> -------------------------------------------------
> If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?

Thank you. In fact I have now made a prism object, but now I could do it
this way too.
-Stefan

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