2011/8/17 Mojca Miklavec
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>>> 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. ;-}