Wasn't it Kevin Jackson-Mead who wrote:
>Greetings everyone.
>
>I am new to POV and to raytracing, and it's been a while since I've
>posted anything to a newsgroup (and first time posting using Netscape's
>news thing), so please excuse any screw-ups.  Attached is a little
>object I made that was inspired by the cover art of Douglas R.
>Hofstadter's book "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid".  As
>far as I know, he invented them for his book (according to what he says
>about it, anyway).  He took a piece of wood and sawed the appropriate
>bits.  Neat idea and a wonderful book, if anyone is looking for
>something to read.
>
>Anyway, I was thinking of trying to come up with a macro to make
>trip-lets out of any three letters, and I was wondering if something
>like that already exists.  I imagine not, but I thought I'd ask first.
>I doubt it would be a very useful macro, but I'm planning on using it to
>teach myself how to do them.
>
>Comments and suggestions are welcome and appreciated (otherwise I
>wouldn't be posting, I guess.)
>
>Kevin Jackson-Mead
>
>[ A MIME image / png part was included here. ]
>

Do you mean to do something like

intersection {
  text { ttf "faktos.ttf", "G", 2, 0 translate <-0.25,-0.36,-1>
         scale <4,2.4,1>}
  text { ttf "faktos.ttf", "E", 2, 0 translate <-0.25,-0.36,-1>
         scale <4,2.4,1> rotate y*90}
  text { ttf "faktos.ttf", "B", 2, 0 translate <-0.25,-0.36,-1>
         scale <4,2.4,1> rotate x*90}
  pigment {rgb 1}
}

(where the translations and scales would be adjusted for the particular
font, so that the letters just about fit within box {-1,1}), or are you
building the thing from CSG?

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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