Emoticons

I happened to notice someone use what I believe is called an emoticon at the end of an email message - it went something like    

This set me thinking whether there was something more suitable for TARS, so this is my attempt at one

()  X

 It might be better if you could use a larger font for the crossed bones!

Happy New Year

Rob

Well how did that happen? I used ordinary punctuation and it seems to have turned it automatically into a smiley face.

I was attempting a skull and crossbones emoticon using a bracket, then a colon, hyphen, upright and another bracket with a capital X for the crossbones. I'll try it spaced out      (   :  -  |  )     X

And if that doesn't work I'll give up,

Rob

Previously Rob Boden wrote:

I happened to notice someone use what I believe is called an emoticon at the end of an email message - it went something like    

This set me thinking whether there was something more suitable for TARS, so this is my attempt at one

()  X

 It might be better if you could use a larger font for the crossed bones!

 

Happy New Year

 

Rob

 

How about this chap not sure how one adds it to the collection.

Rob M

It is a feature of this forum's software that if you make the conventional punctuation emoticons, it will transform them into an appropriate image. Lets see what happens

  ":-)" goes to    ":-("  goes to        ";-)" goes to     

Cool! I saw thosew too and wondered how to make them! ":-)"    ":-("    ";-)"   Are there any more??

As a user of Facebook I know one good one:

( ^ ^ ^ ) without the spaces is a shark : (^^^)

sorry it didn't work.