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Works flawlessly, thank you! Here's a demo with left and right speech bubbles: \definefont [TextFontEmoji] [OpenSansEmoji] \startuseMPgraphic{TextBubble}{side} z1 = (0, 0) ; z2 = (OverlayWidth, 0) ; z3 = (OverlayWidth, OverlayHeight) ; z4 = (0, OverlayHeight) ; offset := 1 ; tail := 1 ; % Flip the tail's location and direction. if \MPvar{side} = 1: offset := 5 ; tail := -1 ; fi (offset/6)[x1,x2] = x8 + .25cm * tail = x7 + .25cm = x9 - .25cm ; y7 = 0cm ; y8 = -.5cm ; y9 = 0cm ; path p ; p = (z1--z7--z8--z9--z2--z3--z4--cycle) cornered .25cm ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 0.75 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineframedtext[TextBubbleFrame][ style=TextFontEmoji, frame=off, width=.618\textwidth, autowidth=force, offset=.75em, after={\blank[2*big]}, ] % Receive text (left-facing). \defineoverlay[TextBubbleRxOverlay][\useMPgraphic{TextBubble}{side=0}] \defineframedtext[TextBubbleRxFrame][TextBubbleFrame][ background=TextBubbleRxOverlay, location=left, ] % Send text (right-facing). \defineoverlay[TextBubbleTxOverlay][\useMPgraphic{TextBubble}{side=1}] \defineframedtext[TextBubbleTxFrame][TextBubbleFrame][ background=TextBubbleTxOverlay, location=right, ] % Map XHTML class names to start/stop environments. \definestartstop[bubblerx][ before={\startnarrower\startTextBubbleRxFrame}, after={\stopTextBubbleRxFrame\stopnarrower}, ] \definestartstop[bubbletx][ before={\startnarrower\startTextBubbleTxFrame}, after={\stopTextBubbleTxFrame\stopnarrower}, ] \starttext \startbubblerx Welcome to the future, human 👽! \input zapf \stopbubblerx \startbubbletx Welcome to the future, human 👽! \input zapf \stopbubbletx \stoptext