In that case you would just put it somewhere in your document, e.g. at the 
top. This kind of “macro“ is called an Attribute Entry[1]

If you need to customize more complex things the first thing you can do is 
reading and changing asciidoc.conf and <your backend>.conf (e.g. docbook.conf)

Bela

[1]http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X18

On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:50:43 Andy68 wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, it seems easy but where do I put that?  I guess
> that's my problem, I'm having trouble unravelling the sequence of
> changes I need to make.  Do I put something in [macros] in
> asciidoc.conf and then do I need to put some markup some other place?
> 
> Andy
> 
> On Jul 14, 10:47 am, Sven Axelsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 14 July 2010 18:53, Andy68 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi!  I'm a long time asciidoc user but unfortunately, due to its
> > > incredible usability out of the box, have never really dabbled in its
> > > customization features.  Not sure that's such a big misfortune rather
> > > a big kudos to Mr. Rackham!
> > > 
> > > I was wondering if anyone could make a suggestion for including
> > > emoticons in documents using some type of markup or macro syntax.
> > > Currently, I just do this:
> > > 
> > > image:images/icons/emoticonbigsmile.gif[grin]
> > > 
> > > But would rather do something with a markup, like:
> > > 
> > > ~~grin~~
> > > 
> > > or some such thing.  The docs are good, and I can read, but could some
> > > guide me a bit on what I should be doing?  Thanks for any suggestions!
> > 
> > This should be easy to do using macros. Define your smilies thusly:
> > 
> >     :grin: image:images/icons/emoticonbigsmile.gif[grin]
> > 
> > And use like {grin} whereever you want them in the text.
> > 
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