"Ron Parker" wrote:
> Aw, c'mon, the challenge is getting Circle_Text
> back into a human-readable form, isn't it?

Yeah, but I didn't want to put it that way. ;)

Wait a minute - you wrote it!

> It's certainly possible to take kerning into account
> when calculating the letter spacings; I've written
> macros to do that.

So now you have a moral obligation to fix the problem.

> The problem is that once you start letting the space
> for a letter overlap the space for another letter,
> you can end up with actual glyphs overlapping after
> you bend them around the circle.

I would like to introduce a new input variable where the user can add space
between the letters. Actually I'm surprised it isn't already there, as it's
a rather basic thing that can also be used just as a part of the text
design.

If you could fix these things it'd be a great improvement of the macro!
Please? :)

Rune
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