Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <38b28881@news.povray.org>, Nieminen Juha
> <war### [at] sarakerttunencstutfi> wrote:
>
> >   I think this can be easyly done with a #macro. Why should the source
> >   code be modified?
>
> If the characters are just being rearranged, than a macro would be easy
> to develop. If the characters also taper toward the center of the
> circle(which would be a more useful feature, in my opinion), than a
> patch would almost be required.(You might be able to get something by
> trace()'ing text objects and using that data to make prisms, but the
> results probably wouldn't be very good, it would be difficult to make,
> and could take a while to parse)
>

And another issue (which I think was mentioned) is that without some patch,
the macro would not have enough information on the characters in a string
to place them correctly.

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