AMSTEX(1)AMSTEX(1)NAMEamstex - structured text formatting and typesetting
SYNOPSISamstex [first-line]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documen‐
tation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
Web2C: A TeX implementation.
The AmSTeX language is described in the book The Joy of TeX. AmSTeX is
a TeX macro package, not a modification to the TeX source program, so
all the capabilities described in tex(1) are present.
The AmSTeX macros encourage writers to think about the content of their
documents, rather than the form. The ideal, not always realized, is to
have no formatting commands (like “switch to italic” or “skip 2 picas”)
in the document at all; instead, everything is done by specific markup
instructions: “emphasize”, “start a section”.
For authors more familiar with LaTeX, an AMS-supported package called
amsmath.sty is available, among others.
FILES
amsguide.tex
Documentation for AmSTeX, typesettable by TeX.
amfndoc.tex
Documentation for AMS fonts, typesettable by TeX.
SEE ALSOlatex(1), tex(1), slitex(1).
Michael Spivak, The Joy of TeX, 2nd edition, American Mathematical
Society, 1990, ISBN 0-8218-2997-1.
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