Two functions can be used to manage fonts and text. Win32 Function Description wglUseFontBitmaps Creates a set of character bitmap display lists.
Characters come from a specified device context's current font.
Characters are specified as a consecutive run within the font's glyph set. The display lists are used to draw 3-D characters of TrueType fonts. The wglUseFontBitmaps and wglUseFontOutlines functions take a handle to a device context, and use that device context's current font as a source for the bitmaps. It is therefore necessary to set the device context's font and the font's properties before calling wglUseFontBitmaps or wglUseFontOutlines . The wglUseFontBitmaps and wglUseFontOutlines functions also take a parameter that turns the first glyph in the font into a bitmap display list, and a parameter that specifies how many glyphs to turn into display lists.