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A curve in a (real) projective \((n+1)\)-space is said to be ``convex by Barner'' if for any of its \(n\) points there is a hyperplane through them, which does not intersect the curve anymore. The paper deals with projections of such curves, which are (projectively) convex or convex by Barner, into a hyperplane and discusses the occurrence of flattening points of the image curve. It turns out that there is an open dense set of convex by Barner curves, which have no convex projections at all. Furthermore 1-parameter families of smooth closed curves in \((n+1)\)-spaces are investigated with respect to the set of possible projection centres such that their image curves in a certain hyperplane are convex. For such a curve this set of centres is a connected component complementary to the union of the (hyper)-osculating hyperplanes at all flattening points of the curve. In extension of a paper of \textit{I. J. Schoenberg} [Acta Math. 91, 143-164 (1954; Zbl 0056.15705)] the author discusses special families of curves defined by arbitrarily given trigonometric coordinate functions in even as well as in odd dimensional projective spaces. He also calculates the parameter intervals such that the images of the original curves have equal number of flattening points. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0931.00034].