> Back in the day (read "the 1970s") \(bs was the "Bell System" logo.
> It was a glyph in the Symbol font. And it looked like:
>
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Bell_System_hires_1969_logo_blue.svg
>
> Is there a way to turn that into a glyph in a groff font?
If
> Huh? Why does it look so different? The \(bs symbol
> looks more like a black ball with a white shadow even on
> the original Troff manual, but the link to Wikipedia looks
> like a bell in a circle.
This page also shows the evolution of the AT&T logo:
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/AT%26T
Th
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:44:10PM +, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 10/01/18 22:02, Stephanie Björk wrote:
> > Huh? Why does it look so different?
The many variations on the theme of Bell System logo can be found at
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=bell+system+logo&chips=q:bell+
On 10/01/18 22:02, Stephanie Björk wrote:
> Huh? Why does it look so different?
https://www.logaster.com/blog/att-logo/
Huh? Why does it look so different? The \(bs symbol looks more like a
black ball with a white shadow even on the original Troff manual, but the
link to Wikipedia looks like a bell in a circle.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> > .char \(bs \X'ps: import ATandTlogo.ps 9 4 1
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
|i just posted a patch containing a complete rewrite of the mdoc(7) .Lk
|macro to: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?52849
I have not seen the patch yet, but .Lk is terrible and
unpredictable by the document author, as you say.
Making it not go in stand-out mode woul
> .char \(bs \X'ps: import ATandTlogo.ps 9 4 109 104 1'\h'1m'
> .\"
> .sp 3c
> This is the AT&T death star: \(bs.
Back in the day (read "the 1970s") \(bs was the "Bell System" logo.
It was a glyph in the Symbol font. And it lo
...and of course the symbol should scale properly with the font size,
so the definition should be:
.char \(bs \X'ps: import ATandTlogo.ps 9 4 109 104 \\n[.ps]'\h'1m'
If you want the symbol to be sized a bit differently, you can
either scale this with the help of inline escapes:
.char \(bs \
