="Michael Greenwald" <mbgreen@seas.upenn.edu> On 2014-06-11 09:19, Whitfield Diffie wrote:
2. A colleague asks how to LaTex a symbol for "loves" (hey, it's about social discovery graphs) consisting of a heart overlaid with an arrow (left-to-right, or bidirectional when requited). Any recipes?
Do you want other ideas or advice on constructing that symbol. I believe a heart is the first or second example in the Metafont manual.
latex provides \heartsuit (as well as \clubsuit, \spadesuit ... etc.), if that helps.
Thanks for the suggestions! I found \heartsuit and \Heart using the neat http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html Now we simply want to overlay it with \longrightarrow How hard could it be? Surely hacking MetaFont is doubtless The Right Thing, but we were hoping for something quick and dirty, more like an update some old-school mechanical typewritten <heart><backspace><arrow> ...what one might've resorted to for, say, APL, INTERCAL (or, heh, Knuth's pre-Tex MS for volume 4!). While brute over-striking is less tasteful, it seems like the ability to create compound symbols this way sure would be handy. However, from what I've found on the web, I'm discouraged there's any easy win for even this. "As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. But I might see young Cupid¹s fiery shaft"