Re: Novel use of .char

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> Putting the motions in the diversion was how I went about it first.
> When that didn't pan out, I went the string route, which was when I
> discovered the diversion needed an actual glyph in it in order to
> work as I hoped.

Just out of curiosity, was displaying the image the only purpose
of the newly defined character, or did this come up as a
by-product of trying something else?

If the former, then it seems a pretty roundabout way of achieving
the purpose.  For example, using the ps device, the following is
sufficient:

  .char \[gnu] \X'ps: import GNU-head-small.ps 0 0 25 22 10000'\h'10p'
  A GNU head \[gnu] image.

Can something similarly simple be done in pdf, too?