Usually each letter will be a quad. But the whole thing will be single surface.
Quite frankly you can push 10,000s of triangles around, it's the surface count that'll kill it. As long as your text routine is single surface I doubt you'll have a problem.
Quite frankly you can push 10,000s of triangles around, it's the surface count that'll kill it. As long as your text routine is single surface I doubt you'll have a problem.