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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Smileys
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:25:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5D293001-7A9D-4A18-BBD7-5F05F31E792D@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsa7zJR=WOfEfyf=-UWK60CUijvMqbQVf-EaX=k-Czkhzg@mail.gmail.com>


Am 17.08.2011 um 13:14 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 22:55, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> 2011/8/16 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
> Well, you can of course colour them, but it will still be plain
> single-colour vector image. If you want your documents to look nice,
> you should fetch nice images from somewhere.


You can also use color when you have a font with different layers: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2011/057859.html

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-17 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-16 19:46 Smileys Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-16 20:23 ` Smileys Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-08-16 20:55   ` Smileys Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-16 21:21     ` Smileys Wolfgang Schuster
2011-08-17  7:12       ` Smileys Patrick Gundlach
2011-08-17  7:49       ` Smileys Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-17  8:09         ` Smileys luigi scarso
2011-08-17  6:21     ` Smileys Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-08-17 11:14     ` Smileys Mojca Miklavec
2011-08-17 11:25       ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2011-08-17 11:26       ` Smileys Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-17 12:27         ` Smileys Mojca Miklavec
2011-08-17 14:02           ` Smileys Jaroslav Hajtmar
2011-08-17 14:20             ` Smileys Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-17 21:57               ` Smileys Wolfgang Schuster
2011-08-18  7:40                 ` Smileys Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-18  8:01                   ` Smileys Wolfgang Schuster
2011-08-18  8:53                     ` Smileys Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-18 20:19                 ` Smileys Jaroslav Hajtmar
2011-08-18 20:53                   ` Smileys Wolfgang Schuster

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