In article <3A17B933.82F38498@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>, 
chr### [at] gmxde wrote:

> - you could try to find the gaps between the characters with 
> megapov's trace function and use a gradient pattern to give the 
> different characters different textures.  This probably sounds quite 
> complicated and it requires some (pov-)programming knowledge, but IMO 
> this is the most elegant way :-)

A more flexible(and far simpler) solution would be to use a separate 
text object for every character and use the min_extent() and 
max_extent() functions to get the bounding box for each individual 
character, and use these values to position the characters correctly.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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