> I want to read in a POV-Ray script from an external file to create a
> text object out of it - but whenever I try to start the main script, I
> get the error message related to the script to be read in:
>
> "Parse Error: Expected 'float, vector, or string literal' light_source
> found instead"
>
> Why that?

 From the documentation of "#read":

"
The format of the data to be read must be a series of valid string 
literals, float literals, or vector literals separated by commas.
"

Basically this means you cannot read arbitrary text files,
only "csv-like" data files. Also, AFAIK, the implementation of
#read to some extent reuses the POV-Ray expression parser, so
you might get strange messages reading source files.

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