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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label AMSpkg</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>What are the AMS packages (AMSTeX, <em>etc</em>.)?</h3>
+
+<p/>AMSTeX is a TeX macro package, originally written by Michael Spivak for
+the American Mathematical Society (AMS) during 1983&ndash;1985 and
+is described in the book &ldquo;<a href="FAQ-books.html">The Joy of TeX</a>&rdquo;.
+It is based on Plain TeX, and provides many
+features for producing more professional-looking maths formulas with
+less burden on authors. It pays attention to the finer details of
+sizing and positioning that mathematical publishers care about. The
+aspects covered include multi-line displayed equations, equation
+numbering, ellipsis dots, matrices, double accents, multi-line
+subscripts, syntax checking (faster processing on initial
+error-checking TeX runs), and other things.
+<p/>As LaTeX increased in popularity, authors asked to submit papers to
+the AMS in LaTeX, and so the AMS developed
+AMSLaTeX, which is a
+collection of LaTeX packages and classes that offer authors most of
+the functionality of AMSTeX.
+The AMS no longer recommends the use of AMSTeX, and urges
+its users to use AMSLaTeX instead.
+
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>AMSTeX distribution</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/amstex.zip">macros/amstex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/amstex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/amstex/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>AMSLaTeX distribution</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/amslatex.zip">macros/latex/required/amslatex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/amslatex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/amslatex/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=AMSpkg">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=AMSpkg</a>
+</body>