Re: Adding skillicons to TeXlive

Am Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:05:29 -0700 schrieb Karl Berry:

> 2) the package is huge! 30mb, and even worse ~two thousand files, half
> of which are uncompressed eps. I didn't and don't think that is worth
> inflicting on the repository.
> 
> The ideal would be to omit the eps and, perhaps more importantly,
> combine all those tiny individual files into one, or a few pdfs, and
> make the code smart enough to pick them out of the right page.
> There are a number of icon sets that have managed to do this.

Well while I understand that you do not want all the files, I'm not
sure if putting them into one PDF is a solution: currently the sty
is only 6 line long and basically only defines a command which then
does \includegraphics{name-of-icon-picture}. 

If the image must be accessed by page number you would need 2000
csnames to keep track of the mapping between page number and icon
name. The twemojis package for example (which has a all-twemojis.pdf
file) defines around 8000 commands and that in every document that
wants to use one emoji with this package. 

 
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Ulrike Fischer 
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