2011/8/17 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com>

> >>> Is it possible to work with smileys in ConTeXt?
> > Instead of using something like ;-}, what looks nice, but is not the
> > highpoint of typography, I would like to use something like \smiley,
> \grin,
> > \cool, …
>
> My suggestion would be to find a set of PNG (or other) images that you
> like, put them all into some subfolder and then define a list in the
> spirit of:
>    \def\smiley{\externalfigure[img/smilies/smiley.png][height=\lineheight]}
>
> Of course you can also use fonts (even marvosym), but they will only
> show ugly black-and-white strokes which is probably not what you want.
>

At least originally was it what I wanted. Because when you use fonts they
scale to the fontsize you are using. So I would think that looks the best.
But you make a good point.


(If you want auto-replacement to work, you need a few more hacks, but
> I would personally not like smilies to be inserted automatically.)
>

Neither do I. ;-}

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
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