   how to use function glutbitmapchar to display text longer than 1 char
  ok so i can display text on the screen in 3D but only one char at a time. my question is how do you display "one" vs. "1" i want to label the vertices with words not numbers. here are examples of what i mean.here is an example of how i want the text to work: http://www.opengl.org/resources/features/fontsurvey/sooft/images/fig1-1.gifhere is how mine looks:http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt62/ishkabible_pic/Untitled-1.pngsee how theres can have multiple charters per string... well mine cant thats why 10 is t, 11 is e, 12 is w. i would like to know how to do thisi found this was an issue when i used "12" as a pointer string. it just displayed "1" same for 10 and 11. i want to label them with words so this is a problom   