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28 Jul 2024 22:25:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The math of circular truetype fonts  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 23 Feb 2000 08:04:44
Message: <38b3daec@news.povray.org>
On 23 Feb 2000 04:16:07 -0500, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>Jon A. Cruz <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote:
>: 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.
>
>  Wouldn't the min_extent and max_extent functions in megapov help?

Not entirely.  Jon is going back to the kerning and character spacing issues
that JR raised.  There might also be some issues with descenders; that's 
something I haven't investigated fully.

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