2011/8/17 Mojca Miklavec
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. ;-} -- Cecil Westerhof