Vector text rendering system in Direct3d?

Direct vector fonts don't work to well in D3D, as it requires an intermediary texture to hold rasterized data(verts or pixels) and need to do a lot more extra work, thus you need a approach them a little differently to get them working easily and efficiently(if you are performance constrained/care about performance). You should use signed distances fields for this (they up-scale VERY well, but are horrid for down-scaling if your fonts are complex. Hard edges also don't store too well, but this can be fixed by using two channels to store data.

Distance fields also allow easy smoothing, bolding, outlining, glowing and drop shadows), al la valve's improved alpha tested advanced vector texture rendering (which incidently references a paper on vector fonts, if you do want to go that way). It is heavily shader reliant (though it can be done in FFP via alpha testing, but using smoothstep in the pixel shader provides a far better result with minimal overhead), but one doesn't need anything beyond ps v1. See valvesoftware.com/publications.html for the paper, see the shaders in valves source sdk for a complete implementation reference.

(I incidently just built a Dx11 based text renderer using this, works wonderfully, though I use a tool to brute force my sdf's so I don't need to create them at runtime).

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.