AMSTEX(1)

✨ AMSTEX(1) — General Commands Manual 🎀

Okay bestie, this is the manual page for amstex, the structured text formatting and typesetting thing. 💅 Let's get into it.

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🌸 NAME

amstex — structured text formatting and typesetting 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS

amstex [first-line]

💜 DESCRIPTION

Okay so this page is NOT trying to be exhaustive, no cap. 🙈 The full docs for this version of TeX live in the info file or the manual called Web2C: A TeX implementation. 📚

The AmSTeX language is explained in the book The Joy of TeX. ✨ AmSTeX is a TeX macro package, not a change to the TeX source program itself, so every capability in tex(1) is still there. It's giving "bonus features unlocked" energy. 🔥

The whole AmSTeX vibe is about thinking of what your document says instead of how it looks. 🧚 The dream, not always achieved, is to have zero formatting commands in your doc (no "switch to italic" or "skip 2 picas" nonsense 💀). Instead you use specific markup instructions like "emphasize" or "start a section" and let the macros handle the rest. Main character writing energy. 👑

If you're more of a LaTeX girlie, there's an AMS-supported package called amsmath.sty that's also available, among others. 🫶

🎀 FILES

amsguide.tex

Documentation for AmSTeX, typesettable by TeX. Read it, it's literally the guide. 📖

amfndoc.tex

Documentation for AMS fonts, typesettable by TeX. For the font enthusiasts. 🌈

🌈 SEE ALSO

latex(1), tex(1), slitex(1). 🦋

Michael Spivak, The Joy of TeX, 2nd edition, American Mathematical Society, 1990, ISBN 0-8218-2997-1. 💜

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Okay bestie, that's the whole tea ☕ Web2C 2025 🌸 — version and date were 16 June 2015 (so it's giving vintage ✨) — and that's a wrap on AMSTEX(1)! 💖🫶