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14 Mar 2025 08:03:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Other things the text object can do.  
From: Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann
Date: 4 Mar 2025 15:24:58
Message: <67c7619a$1@news.povray.org>
Banzai!

On 04.03.25 16:35, William F Pokorny wrote:
> I started looking at a yuqk version of documentation for the text{} 
> object. I quickly found out I've been decades clueless about the offset 
> vector; Always setting the value to 0 - or maybe 0.1*x, if I wanted a 
> little extra space between characters.
> 
> Well, we can already do vertical and right to left text so long as it is 
> a mono-space font. I've long thought this a missing feature in POV-Ray. 
> For example:
> 
> text {
>      ttf "/home/pokorny/Fonts/LiberationMono-Regular.ttf"
>      "What the heck?",
>      1.0, <-0.6,-1.0,0>
>      pigment { rgb <.7,.3,.1> }
>      finish { emission 1 }
>      translate <-0.3,5.75,0>
>      scale 0.1
> }

Kawaii!

Sayonara,

Yadugaru


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