amstex - structured text formatting and typesetting

       This  manual  page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation for this version of TeX can
       be found in the info file or manual Web2C:ATeXimplementation.

       The AmSTeX language is described in the book TheJoyofTeX.  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.

amsguide.tex
              Documentation for AmSTeX, typesettable by TeX.

       amfndoc.tex
              Documentation for AMS fonts, typesettable by TeX.

       amstex - structured text formatting and typesetting

latex(1), tex(1), slitex(1).
       Michael Spivak, TheJoyofTeX, 2nd edition, American Mathematical Society, 1990, ISBN 0-8218-2997-1.

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