1AMSTEX(1)                   General Commands Manual                  AMSTEX(1)
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NAME

6       amstex - structured text formatting and typesetting
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SYNOPSIS

9       amstex [ first line ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       This  manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documen‐
13       tation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or  manual
14       Web2C: A TeX implementation.
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16       The  AmSTeX language is described in the book The Joy of TeX for nroff.
17       AmSTeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification  to  the  TeX  source
18       program, so all the capabilities described in tex(1) are present.
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20       The AmSTeX macros encourage writers to think about the content of their
21       documents, rather than the form.  The ideal, not always realized, is to
22       have  no  formatting  commands  (like  ``switch to italic'' or ``skip 2
23       picas'') in the document at all; instead, everything is  done  by  spe‐
24       cific markup instructions: ``emphasize'', ``start a section''.
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26       AmSTeX  is the official typesetting system of the American Mathematical
27       Society, and nearly all of its publications are typeset  using  AmSTeX.
28       The  online  version  of  AMS Math Reviews uses AmSTeX input syntax for
29       display of mathematical material.  AMS authors can provide editors with
30       computer-readable AmSTeX files.
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32       For  authors  more familiar with LaTeX, an AMS-supported package called
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FILES

36       amsguide.tex"
37              Documentation for AmSTeX, typesettable by TeX.
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39       amfndoc.tex"
40              Documentation for AMS fonts, typesettable by TeX.
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SEE ALSO

43       latex(1), tex(1), slitex(1).
44       Michael Spivak, The Joy of TeX for nroff, 2nd edition,  Addison-Wesley,
45       1990, ISBN 0-8218-2997-1.
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49Web2C 7.5.6                    27 December 1992                      AMSTEX(1)
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