Re: Adding skillicons to TeXlive

On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 at 22:29, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:

>     file) defines around 8000 commands and that in every document that
>     wants to use one emoji with this package.
>
> Seems to me they don't have to define all their commands up front.
> \someemoji{codepoint}
>
> Also, maybe there could be some clever way to associate pdf page numbers
> with code points so there doesn't have to be an explicit mapping.
>
> Apart from that, agreed that it's unfortunate, but better 8000 commands,
> to place the burden on the few people who want to use such a package,
> than 8000 files, which affects/slows down everyone, namely the 99% who
> have no need for <random icon collection of thousands of files>.
> And there are several such collections, so it's a slippery slope. -k
>

I'm not offering but probably the best way to make such a collection
available is as a font
 you could use some access via glyphname to avoid needing thousands of
csnames or thousands of files.