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PROGRAM:

NAME

amstex - structured text formatting and typesetting

SYNOPSIS

amstex [first-line]

DESCRIPTION

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: 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.

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