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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Well, it creates an image specifier, which contains information how
> the image should be displayed on various devices.  In XEmacs parlance,
> the actual image in buffer is in called a "glyph", and the easiest way
> to create it is using an instantiator, without mucking with image
> specifiers at all (leave that to the internal code.)  For instance:
> 
> ;; I like backquotes
> (setq my-glyph (make-glyph `[,(intern type) :data ,(buffer-string)]))

Ah, right.

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