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.  AmSTeX is
17       a TeX macro package, not a modification to the TeX source  program,  so
18       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 picas”)
23       in the document at all; instead, everything is done by specific  markup
24       instructions: “emphasize”, “start a section”.
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26       For  authors  more familiar with LaTeX, an AMS-supported package called
27       amsmath.sty is available, among others.
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FILES

30       amsguide.tex
31              Documentation for AmSTeX, typesettable by TeX.
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33       amfndoc.tex
34              Documentation for AMS fonts, typesettable by TeX.
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SEE ALSO

37       latex(1), tex(1), slitex(1).
38       Michael Spivak, The Joy of TeX, 2nd edition, American Mathematical  So‐
39       ciety, 1990, ISBN 0-8218-2997-1.
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