AMSTEX(1)                                                         AMSTEX(1)
                              27 December 1992






 NAME
      amstex - structured text formatting and typesetting


 SYNOPSIS
      amstex [ first line ]


 DESCRIPTION
      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''.


      AmSTeX is the official typesetting system of the American Mathematical
      Society, and nearly all of its publications are typeset using AmSTeX.
      The online version of AMS Math Reviews uses AmSTeX input syntax for
      display of mathematical material.  AMS authors can provide editors
      with computer-readable AmSTeX files.


      For authors more familiar with LaTeX, an AMS-supported variant called
      AmSLaTeX is available.


 SEE ALSO
      amslatex(1), latex(1), tex(1), slitex(1).
      Michael Spivak, The Joy of TeX, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1990,
      ISBN 0-8218-2997-1.














































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