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Font outline in OpenGL, FTGL

I'm using FTGL library to render fonts in my game, but I have completely no idea how to create an outline around text. Achieving a shadow could be easy, because I can simply do it like this: (pseudo ...
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Rendering only a part of text FTGL, OpenGL

I'm using FTGL library to render text in my C++ project. I can easily render text by using: CFontManager::Instance().renderWrappedText(font, lineLength, position, text); Unfortunately there is a ...
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Creating Font Textures in Direct3d without D3DX

Update: The completed solution using Nathan Reed's answer is posted in my answer below A few open source programs I've seen that render installed fonts do something like this... Create a texture for ...