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The long-sought English version of Friedhelm Sowa's "BM2FONT Users
Manual" is indeed available, in at least this location:

    vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de :
    /Sources/TeX/Contrib/grafix/bm2font/bm2fmane.dvi

(Note the 4 uppercase letters.)

The date on the file "bm2fmane.dvi" is "26 May 1992", the same as the
copy there of the German original.

In order to print the manual, one also needs all the *.pk and *.tfm
files.

On a unix system, I found it necessary to rename all the *.pk files to
*.300pk, in order for "dvips" to recognise them.  This may not be
necessary on a PC using emTeX's file hierarchy.

The PostScript form of the manual uses 2 or 3 Megabytes, depending on
whether dvips's bitmap compression option "-Z" is used.  So I prepared
it 5 or 10 pages at a time, to keep each piece comfortably under 1 MB.
This advice came from Norman Walsh (walsh@cs.umass.edu).
The page numbers run:  1-4, 1-33.

The English version is slightly expanded over the German edition, with
an early explanation of how to use BM2FONT to put the picture of
Donald Duck on the cover into PK form.

As a reminder, non-PC versions of BM2FONT are available in the
"bm2fontC" (watch the Capital "C") subdirectory of "grafix".

The "testpix" subdirectory of "bm2fontC" contains the originals of
many pictures used in the manual, and other graphics, for developers
and beta testers to try out their port of BM2FONT on.  Warning:  some
of the astronomy pictures, for instance, are over 1 megabyte each!

Also, on page 33, this address is given for the maintenance of the
English language edition (the punctuation is not given, so the line
divisions are only my guess):

    Bart Childs
    Department of Computer Science
    Texas A&M University
    College Station TX
    USA
    77843-3112
    Telephone:  409 845-5470
    Telefax:    409 847-8578
    Email:  bart@cs.tamu.edu
       or:  bart@tamzeus.bitnet

For the German original, Friedhelm Sowa's email contact address is
given as:

    Friedhelm Sowa
    Email:  tex@ze8.convex.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
       or:  sowa@convex.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de


All the Best!
Geoffrey Tobin    ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au