ok- so I'm using POV3.1 under windoze95, and am going through the
tutorial conscientiously cutting text from the examples and pasting into
the main window-BUT-How-o-how would I like to know why it won't
recognize end of line and paragraph formatting; it's just one big line
(still renders ok but it's a bugger to read properly)

Any suggestions?

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I think the same thing was true with 3.02.  It must have something to do
with the format of the help files.  Just look in the docsdemo folder to find
the source code for all the examples in the docs.  You can open them in
another window and cut and paste from those.

Another option would be to download the html form of the docs.  The
formatting in those should stay when you cut and paste.

-Mike

Martin Crook wrote:

> ok- so I'm using POV3.1 under windoze95, and am going through the
> tutorial conscientiously cutting text from the examples and pasting into
> the main window-BUT-How-o-how would I like to know why it won't
> recognize end of line and paragraph formatting; it's just one big line
> (still renders ok but it's a bugger to read properly)
>
> Any suggestions?

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I never had that problem in 3.01. I would copy/paste and the formatting
was the same as I viewed it in the docs. Maybe I have a smarter puter : )

Ken Tyler

P.S. I haven't tried in 3.1 yet because I can never find what I'm
looking for in the new docs anyway.



Mike wrote:

> I think the same thing was true with 3.02.  It must have something to do
> with the format of the help files.  Just look in the docsdemo folder to find
> the source code for all the examples in the docs.  You can open them in
> another window and cut and paste from those.
>
> Another option would be to download the html form of the docs.  The
> formatting in those should stay when you cut and paste.
>
> -Mike
>
> Martin Crook wrote:
>
> > ok- so I'm using POV3.1 under windoze95, and am going through the
> > tutorial conscientiously cutting text from the examples and pasting into
> > the main window-BUT-How-o-how would I like to know why it won't
> > recognize end of line and paragraph formatting; it's just one big line
> > (still renders ok but it's a bugger to read properly)
> >
> > Any suggestions?

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As Ken said, HF is one way (guess inversed is 2nd way).
Also a 3rd way:

plane {z,0 clipped_by {box {<0,0,-0.1>,<1,1,0.1>}} //height_field instead?
 pigment {image_map {
  gif "yourlogo.gif" once interpolate 2}} //replace with your file&type
  normal {bump_map {
   gif "yourlogo.gif" bump_size 1 interpolate 2}}
 translate <-.5,-.5,0> //centered
  scale <1,1,1> //resize to correct dimensions here
 }

Although not a true 3D object it can be good for something too, maybe.
Keep in mind the black/low, white/high concept same for the HF and 'inverse' 
can always be used too. A 4th way would be using this on a height field but it 
gets redundant, up to you.

Message <362### [at] globalservenet>, Martin Crook  typed...
>
>ok- so I'm using POV3.1 under windoze95, and am going through the
>tutorial conscientiously cutting text from the examples and pasting into
>the main window-BUT-How-o-how would I like to know why it won't
>recognize end of line and paragraph formatting; it's just one big line
>(still renders ok but it's a bugger to read properly)
>
>Any suggestions?
>

-- 
 omniVERSE: beyond the universe
  http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.html
=Bob

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