Text in opengl

[kilele]

Hi
Which is the simplest way to scroll a text sting across the screen?
I mean plain 2d text

[Brolingstanz]

translate the texcoords or positions over time?

Something like text.x -= amount * time;

[ZbuffeR]

draw it on a texture, then move a texture quad with it.
If the text is too long, split it to multiple textures (one tex per word, or even per character).

[MaxH]

Are you able to display a string on the screen that isn't moving?
That's the first step. If you can do that, making it move will be easy.

[_NK47]

assume that you render your text already somewhere at x,y. now rendering it with say x+2,y+2 will put it into different position. doing this over time each frame adding some displacement will look like the text is moving.