Doing some letterworks - HOWTO?

[Lexje]

Hi folks,

First off, thanks for all the great help you've provided me with!
I'm exploring on some work and stuff I found here on the forum
I'm referring to Ken's thread here using SimpleViewer and Steve's explanation and pointer to his example

This made me try to do some letterworX :-)
I wonder how in the example the letters forming Xara have been manipulated to get to this final effect?
- How is one leg of the X prolongued?
- What's happened to the general 'shape' of the individual letters?

I guess you first start typing some text, choose a nice font, next you color and resize to flavour, after which you convert to editable shapes - Is that correct?

But what am I missing here?
I've looked through the XaraXone tutorials but haven't easily found what I'm looking for....

Please have a look at the attached file.
(made up in XXP5)
How would I go about to extend the lower end of the leg of the 'P' and how would need to go about to say, extend the bellow of the 'P' to the right?
Very curious...

Thanks for your suggestions!

Erwin