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In article <3b7013d7@news.povray.org>,
"Reuben Pearse" <reu### [at] presence-systems com> wrote:
> I have tried using the new megapov features min_extent and max_extent to
> work out the position for a letter based on the size/position of the last
> letter, but cannot get it working.
> Has anyone got any code that does this?
You might want to look at the CircleText() macros by Ron Parker...they
include a macro to determine the width of a character, and "manually"
position each character of a string to form a circular text object. It
shouldn't be hard to modify these macros to do what you want. These
macros were posted in povray.text.scene-files:
From: ron### [at] povray org (Ron Parker)
Subject: circletext.pov : Make text go in circles
Date: 13 Dec 2000 12:19:44 -0500
Message-ID: <slr### [at] fwi com>
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