From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6988 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: smileys on fsf emacs Date: 26 Jun 1996 23:42:38 -0400 Sender: gsstark@MIT.EDU Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147365 5512 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:56:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA07182 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 21:28:26 -0700 Original-Received: from lola-granola.MIT.EDU (LOLA-GRANOLA.MIT.EDU [18.70.0.26]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 05:42:40 +0200 Original-Received: (from gsstark@localhost) by lola-granola.MIT.EDU (8.7.4/8.6.11) id XAA25245; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 23:42:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Yow: What UNIVERSE is this, please?? X-spook: domestic disruption Saddam Hussein class struggle Treasury Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Katsumi Yamaoka's message of 27 Jun 1996 08:57:42 +0900 Original-Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.22/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6988 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6988 Hmm, it should be possible to make a font containing each of the smileys and use that font to show smileys on the FSF Emacs. The only limitation would be the multicolourness of some of the smileys. But i can imagine somebody might be able to hack something using font metrics, zero width characters, and two character glyphs... Besides, most of them would do ok with just a foreground and background colour and this would have the benefit of scaling up to match the size font being used in the document. I don't know enough about X fonts to do this myself, but i might start experimenting if no one else does. greg PS I know RMS doesn't like the term ``FSF Emacs'' but i can't imagine what else to call it.