AMS-TeX

AMS-TeX
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Basic data
category	Typesetting

AMS-TeX is a format for the typesetting program TeX . It was developed 1983–1985 by Michael Spivak for the American Mathematical Society (AMS) . Although AMS-TeX has not been further developed for a long time, around 10% of all mathematical specialist articles were still written in AMS-TeX in 2007 .

AMS-TeX is based on plain TeX ( all Plain-TeX macros also work in AMS-TeX in particular ) and extends this with macros for setting complex formulas .

AMS-TeX is not with the typesetting system LaTeX compatible. The merger of AMS-TeX with LaTeX initially resulted in the independent AMS-LaTeX format and later the amsmath package for LaTeX. The latter has largely replaced its predecessor.

literature

• Michael Spivak : The Joy of TeX . 2nd edition, American Mathematical Society, 1990, ISBN 0-8218-2997-1 (AMS-TeX manual in English, published on CTAN in January 2019 ).