%% Copyright 1996 1997 David Carlisle Frank Mittelbach
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%% Development of this package was commissioned by Y&Y Inc.
%% http://www.yandy.com


   The `bm' package for accessing bold math symbols
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           David Carlisle  Frank Mittelbach


This package defines \bm and related commands for accessing
bold math symbols, for example \bm{\alpha} will produce a bold alpha.

The command name \bm is derived from Michael Spivak's support for the
MathTime fonts in plain TeX, but the implementation here is completely
different and this package is not restricted to MathTime. It has been
tested with the Standard TeX Computer Modern set and with Lucida
as well as with MathTime.

Installation
============

Following normal LaTeX convention the package is distributed as
a documented source bm.dtx and an installation file bm.ins.

Run TeX or LaTeX on bm.ins and the package file bm.sty will be
generated. This should be placed in a directory in the TEXINPUT path.

Further documentation and examples may then be obtained by running
LaTeX on the source file, typically by a command such as

latex bm.dtx

This will produce bm.dvi which may be viewed in the normal way.