[Haskell-cafe] Rendering TTF fonts in Haskell and OpenGL

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Feb 17, 2008, at 19:13 , Jefferson Heard wrote:

> In C and in Java, I can use truetype fonts in Haskell using select
> libraries, and I'd like to be able to do the same in Haskell.  Are
> there any portable libraries out there for loading fonts into OpenGL
> geometry for Haskell?  I can use the vector fonts from GLUT is
> absolutely neccessary, but I'd like something that looks a little more
> professional.  Are there any suggestions?

Can't speak to OpenGL per se, but have a look at:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/SDL-ttf-0.4.0
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-xft-0.2

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