Re: Adding skillicons to TeXlive

Am Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:28:15 -0700 schrieb Karl Berry:

>     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}

Well for emojis which do have an unicode code point you naturally
tell people to copy&paste the symbols from somewhere. But for
something like an icon collection, you really want names to access
the symbols and not some number. 

 
> 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.

luatex could probably use e.g. named destinations to retrieve pages,
but I don't see many options for pdftex.

> 
> 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

Well I have currently around 80.000 files in fonts/tfm and over
130.000 in the full fonts folder, most of them for fonts I will
probably never need. 


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Ulrike Fischer 
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