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

[Luke Palmer]

On Feb 18, 2008 12:20 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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

I have an immature, but precise and picky implementation that renders text in
a ttf font to an OpenGL texture (using SDL-ttf) here:
http://svn.luqui.org/svn/misc/luke/work/code/haskell/frp/Fregl/Draw.hs
(It may have some dependencies in the same directory).  Text support is
way at the bottom.

Good Luck,

Luke