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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:
>=20
> 72F
>=20
> 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.