[texhax] Fumbling with fonts.

[Rolf Turner]

For reasons best known to myself ( :-) )I want to produce a "solid"
\heartsuit symbol, rather than just the outline, which is what \heartsuit
gives you.

After scrounging around I found that one way is to load the arev
package and use the \varheart symbol which that package makes
available.

Unfortunately invoking

     \usepackage{arev}

has the effect of changing all of the fonts in my document, which I
don't want.  How can I "shut this off"?  I.e. I just want to have the
\varheart symbol available and leave everything else alone.

Can anyone tell me how to effect this?  (And please keep explanations
elementary.  I am a bear of very little brain, especially when it comes
to fonts.)

Thanks for any insight.

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner

P. S. The document in question is of the *powerdot* documentclass.
This may (or may not I guess) complicate the issue.

         R. T.