How to draw text using only OpenGL methods?

Question

I don\'t have the option to use but OpenGL methods (that is glxxx() methods). I need to draw text using gl methods only. After reading the red book, I understan

Answer 1

I think that the best solution for drawing text in OpenGL is texture fonts, I work with them for a long time. They are flexible, fast and nice looking (with some rear exceptions). I use special program for converting font files (.ttf for example) to texture, which is saved to file of some internal "font" format (I've developed format and program based on http://content.gpwiki.org/index.php/OpenGL:Tutorials:Font_System though my version went rather far from the original supporting Unicode and so on). When starting the main app, fonts are loaded from this "internal" format. Look link above for more information.

With such approach the main app doesn't use any special libraries like FreeType, which is undesirable for me also. Text is being drawn using standard OpenGL functions.