Re: [NTG-context] Dangerous bend metafont/post code?

28 May 2020

      I’ve used:

\startMPpage[instance=doublefun]
% Inspired by and largely copied from Donald Knuth's METAFONT dangerous bend glyph
h=11;
u=h/15;
w=h*8.5/4.6;
heavyline=2;
y1=25/27h;
x4=0;
x1+x1=x1a+x1b=x4b+x2a=x4+x2=x4a+x2b=x3b+x3a=x3+x3=w;
x4a=x4b=x4+u; x3b=x1a=x1-2u;
y4+y4=y4a+y4b=y3b+y1a=y3+y1=y3a+y1b=y2b+y2a=y2+y2=0;
y1a=y1b=y1-2/27h; y4b=y2a=y4+4/27h;
path signboard; signboard := z1a..z1..z1b---z2a..z2..z2b---
  z3a..z3..z3b---z4a..z4..z4b---cycle;  % signboard
fill signboard withcolor yellow;
x10=x11=x12=x13=(.5w-u); x14=x15=x16=x17=w-x10;
y10=y14=28/27h+epsilon; y13=-h*(6.6/4.1);
z11=(z10..z13) intersectionpoint (z1a{z1a-z4b}..z1{right});
y15=y11; y16=y12=-y11; y17=y20=y21=y13;
path toppost; toppost := z1 -- z11 -- z10 -- z14 -- z15 -- cycle;
path bottompost; bottompost := z3 -- z16 -- z17 -- z13 -- z12 -- cycle;
fill toppost withcolor .5white;
fill bottompost withcolor .5white;
draw signboard;
draw z11--z10--z14--z15; draw z12--z13; draw z16--z17;  % signpost
x20=w-x21; x21-x20=16u; draw z20--z21;  % ground level
x38=w-x31; x38-x31=8u; x32=x34=x38; x31=x35=x37;
y31=-y38=12/27h; y32=-y37=9/27h; y34=-y35=3/27h;
pickup pencircle scaled heavyline;
draw z32{z32-z31}..z34---z35..z37{z38-z37};  % the dangerous bend
pickup penrazor xscaled heavyline rotated (angle(z32-z31)+90);
draw z31--z32; draw z37--z38;    % upper and lower bars
\stopMPpage

which results in:
...
On 27 May 2020, at 21:50, Herbert Voss  wrote:
Am 27.05.20 um 21:19 schrieb Gerben Wierda:
...
To honour Donald Knuth, I’ve use his ‘dangerous bend’ (with attribution of course) in one of my publications. But I only had a low res image. Is the code of this symbol available somewhere so I can do it proper justice in a next edition?
Knuth used
\input manmac
\dbend
\bye
Herbert
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