Thank you all for the suggestions.  Yes, the Smoke Vector Graphics library
looks like is extremely professional and good job.   Still, I need something
easy and small, and I thought more about the "image to texture" suggestion,
and I think I found something, which will definitely work good for my
purposes.  I decide to give it a try by going through latex, which will
produce a dvi file, then use "convert" to make it into a suitable format for
importing into an OpenGL texture.

What do you think?

On 10/7/07, Vu Ngoc San <san.vu-ngoc@ujf-grenoble.fr> wrote:
>
> Orlin Grigorov a écrit :
> > I've been struggling with this one.  I'm developing an application, and
> > I'm using the gtkgl.area, and drawing some OpenGL renderings with
> > lablgl.  Please, any suggestions on the best way to display text?
> > Anything available already, especially some texture mapped text
> > libraries that I can use?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.  Although this is my first post, I'm a very
> > frequent reader of this list!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Orlin
> >
>
>
> well it is possible to use sdl for this. There are functions for reading
> any truetype font file you have into a sdlvideo image. It actually
> directly renders any string to an image. Then you have to convert it to
> an opengl texture. It is not so difficult. Of course, since you are
> actually using gtkgl this may sound a bit circumvoluted, and there is
> probably a simpler way to do it. (?)
>
> San
>
>