The most recent version is completely string-based.
The performance of the symbol-based predecessors was erratic; it would be terribly slow at
first in a clean image and improve only after saving the image at least once.
This is cool. These symbols everywhere were so totally out of place
and caused all kind of weird things to happen ...
Lukas
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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch