> 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 you're looking for the old "bell" logo, then that's already been done. Here's a paper by Bagley, Brailsford, and Kernighan entitled "Digital restoration and typesetter forensics", in which they report on doing this (among other things): https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42505604.pdf It contains the following remark: From the earliest years of the second-generation CAT typesetter, Bell Labs always made sure that the Bell System logo was present within its Special Font, which consisted of mathematical and other symbols. UNIX users outside of Bell Labs just had to accept that any callout of the Bell logo, via \(bs, would absolutely not deliver the Bell logo but, in all probability, something like <heartsymbol>. Then they proceed to explain how they outline-traced a sufficiently high-resolution image (found with Google) of the original Bell logo and converted that into a font (attached). The result is usable, but if you look at the positioning of the control points you can see that it doesn't conform to very high standards.
BellLabs-Regular.pfa
Description: application/font-type1
