On 24 April 2013, at 15:10, James wrote: > ... > What I'm really (eventually) after is a way to send > a custom emoticon, tied to a specific trirgger. > For example, every hour, I'd like to send a measured > temperature from a remote linux system to the mail > box on another system, that looks like a hollow > emoticon (empty sphere) with these characters inside of > it: > > 72F > > meaning the cpu temperature on this system is 72 degrees F. > Think of it a simple graphical email, via expanded emoticons?
My immediate reaction to this is to suggest creating a PDF. My mail client shows PDFs inline, so this would display quite nicely. You could create the circle using Postscript, then dump the postscript document to PDF; PDFs allow arbitrary paper sizes. Alternatively, you could draw this as a gif or png using imagemagick or something. The imagemagick examples explain how to draw circles: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/draw/#circles Stroller.
