On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:56:34 -0500, Christopher James Huff wrote:
> In article <slr### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain>,
>  Steve <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to print a vector using #debug?  And if so could someone
>> please give an example?
> 
> The #debug statement only takes strings, so you will need to convert the 
> vector to a string first. Since you seem to be using POV-Ray 3.5, look 
> up the documentation for the vstr() function.

Thanks Chris, I'm suffereing severely as there isn't a text version of the 
3.5 docs available yet (or wasn't last night).  

> 
>> This is only part of my current problem, I'm trying to center text but 
>> there is NO documentation on this, though in both the POV docs and in the
>> VFAQ this is listed as a question that is answered - but the question is 
>> not answered it just says use min and max_extent.  
> 
> The answer is to use min_extent() and max_extent(). ;-)
> Once you have the coordinates of each corner of the bounding box, it is 
> very simple to translate it so it is centered over the origin or any 
> other desired point. Just find the center and translate by -CenterPos.
> Or you could use the standard macro for this: Center_Trans() in 
> transforms.inc.

Thanks, I'll have a go at this.  Now that I can #debug vectors I'll be 
able to sort something out. 

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