Fonts
Allegro provides routines for loading fonts directly from GRX format .fnt
files, 8x8 or 8x16 BIOS format .fnt files, from bitmap images, from datafiles
or you can import a multiple-range Unicode font by writing a .txt script that
specifies a number of different source files for each range of characters.
By default, Allegro can only use bitmapped (non-scalable) fonts. If you want
to use TrueType fonts, you will need to use an add-on library which allows
you to load them on the fly (like AllegTTF or Glyph Keeper, listed among
others at
http://www.allegro.cc/) and render them directly, or generate a
bitmapped version of a TrueType font with tools like TTF2PCX
(
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ttf2pcx/index.html).