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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/base/amstex.bug b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/base/amstex.bug new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6bd31baaa69 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/base/amstex.bug @@ -0,0 +1,854 @@ +%%% ==================================================================== +%%% @Text-file{ +%%% filename = "amstex.bug", +%%% version = "2.2", +%%% date = "2001/08/07", +%%% time = "13:39:04 EDT", +%%% checksum = "53599 854 3423 28968", +%%% author = "American Mathematical Society", +%%% copyright = "Copyright 1997, 2001 American Mathematical Society, +%%% all rights reserved. Copying of this file is +%%% authorized only if either: +%%% (1) you make absolutely no changes to your copy +%%% including name; OR +%%% (2) if you do make changes, you first rename it +%%% to some other name.", +%%% address = "American Mathematical Society, +%%% Technical Support, +%%% Publications Technical Group, +%%% P. O. Box 6248, +%%% Providence, RI 02940, +%%% USA", +%%% telephone = "401-455-4080 or (in the USA and Canada) +%%% 800-321-4AMS (321-4267)", +%%% FAX = "401-331-3842", +%%% email = "tech-support@ams.org (Internet)", +%%% codetable = "ISO/ASCII", +%%% supported = "yes", +%%% keywords = "amstex, ams-tex, tex", +%%% abstract = "This file is a list of bugs and/or changes in the +%%% AMS-TeX distribution (amstex.tex, amsppt.sty, +%%% amssym.tex, amsppt1.tex, amstex.ini, and related +%%% documentation files). Changed Items are listed in +%%% reverse chronological order. A secondary list at the +%%% end, marked with %% at the left margin, have not yet +%%% been dealt with, but are listed here in case the +%%% information might help some users, and to record +%%% the fact that they have been reported to the AMS.", +%%% docstring = "The checksum field above contains a CRC-16 checksum +%%% as the first value, followed by the equivalent of +%%% the standard UNIX wc (word count) utility output +%%% of lines, words, and characters. This is produced +%%% by Robert Solovay's checksum utility.", +%%% } +%%% ==================================================================== + +Changes released July 2001 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amstex.tex +Date reported: 2001/??/?? + +Request to remove copyright notice and restriction from message printed +on terminal and in log for every run. This restriction made AMS-TeX +"not free software" for purposes of TeX live. + +Changed: Version 2.2 (August 2001) + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 2000/08/24 + +\email \endemail, without any data, causes the label "E-mail address" +to be printed without data following the author address; similarly for +other author-specific elements. + +Corrected: Version 2.2 (August 2001) + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 2000/03/31 + +In captions, if there is no label, a period prints out before the +caption text. + +Corrected: Version 2.2 (August 2001) + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 2000/01/?? + +Need for alternate year for \subjclass to support 2000 Mathematics +Subject Classification. \subjclassyear provided and defaulted to 1991. + +Corrected: Version 2.2 (August 2001) + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 1999/01/11 + +In order to avoid problems with @ in verbatim (and e-mail addresses?) +add @ (and other active characters) to \dospecials + +Corrected: Version 2.2 (August 2001) + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 1996/12/20 + +AMS style dictates that roster items should be in parentheses at all +levels, e.g. (1), (2), etc. + +Changed: Version 2.2 (August 2001) + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amstex.tex +Date reported: 4-SEP-1991 (MJD) + +In the \everyjob message, a space is needed before the second hyphen. + +\everyjob changed to remove restrictions. + +Changed: Version 2.2 (August 2001) + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +%%% ==================================================================== + +Changes released January 1997 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: ??? + +Activation of \PSAMSFonts requires change to amsppt.sty; change +approach to "do the right thing" when \PSAMSFonts is entered in a +document preamble. + +Corrected: Version 2.1g, January 1997 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: ??? + +In \output@, setting logo outside of pagecontents makes it difficult +to get all pages the same size; convert copyright/logo to insert, +with side benefit of simpler output routine. + +Corrected: Version 2.1g, January 1997 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: ??? (bnb) + +Hard coded skips and fonts mean that author packages must redefine +entire heading structures rather than simply substituting parameters; +add named skips \preproclaim, \postproclaim, \remark, \postdemo, +\predefinition, \postdefinition and named font \refsheadfont@. + +Corrected: Version 2.1g, January 1997 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: ??? (bnb) + +Initialization of \refstyle A wipes out \refindentwd if \refstyle C +is requested. + +Corrected: Version 2.1g, January 1997 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 11-Oct-1996 (bnb) + +Bug in \makeheadline: when first page ends with roster, serieslogo is +not flush left. + +Corrected: Version 2.1g, January 1997 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +%%% ==================================================================== + +Changes released December 1993 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 3-Nov-1993 (V. Jalby) + +Bug in \linespacing: the vrule in \strutbox must have zero width. + +Corrected: Version 2.1d, December 1993 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amssym.tex +Date reported: ?-?-1993 (M. Spivak) + +\diagup and \diagdown should be class 0 instead of class 3. + +Corrected: Version 2.1b + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 5-Mar-1993 (B.K.P. Horn) + +Misspelled \PSAMSFONTS instead of \PSAMSFonts for the (commented out) +\nineex font declaration. + +Corrected: Version 2.1d, December 1993 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 4-Mar-1993 (B.K.P. Horn) + +The description of the PSAMSFonts switch fails to mention Y&Y as +co-developer of the PS versions of the AMSFonts. + +Corrected: Version 2.1d, December 1993 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +%%% ==================================================================== + +Changes released January 1993 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 10-Jan-1993 (S. Cioe) + +Problem with \moreref punctuation introduced by 2.1b change to \ref. + +Corrected: Version 2.1c + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 1-Nov-1992 (D. Henderson) + +Added support for PostScript versions of AMS fonts from Y&Y / Blue Sky +Research. + +Corrected: Version 2.1c + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +%%% ==================================================================== + +Changes released September 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 11-SEP-1992 (J.S. Milne) + +When \roster\widestnumber is used from within \proclaim you get an +error about a missing \endproclaim + +Corrected: Version 2.1b + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 31-Aug-1992 (T. Hailperin) + +The following document has problems with the running heads. \chapterno@ +prints as empty, followed by a period, then "Chapter 4 ...." + +\input amstex +\documentstyle{amsppt} +\Monograph + +\topmatter +\title\chapter\nofrills{Appendix A} +Test for header with nofrills\endtitle +\endtopmatter + +\document + +dummy text +\newpage + +first left-hand page + +\enddocument + +Corrected: Version 2.1b + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 20-Aug-1992 (JUL) + +\subsubhead needs a dedicated \subsubheadfont@ command (like +\headfont@ and \subheadfont@) to permit +redefinition for different publications. + +Corrected: Version 2.1b + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 5-Aug-1992 (mjd) + +\rom should handle a preceding ~ as well as ordinary spaces. The +penalty needs to be saved and reinserted after the italic correction. +Something like + +\def\rom#1{\leavevmode + \edef\prevskip@{\ifdim\lastskip=\z@ \else\hskip\the\lastskip\relax\fi}% + \def\prevpenalty@{}% + \unskip + \edef\prevpenalty@{\ifnum\lastpenalty=\z@ \else + \penalty\the\lastpenalty\relax\fi}% + \unpenalty \/\prevpenalty@ \prevskip@ {\rm #1}} + +Corrected: Version 2.1b + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 26-Jul-1992 (B. Lucier) + +If \topmatter is omitted, some necessary font setup is not done. +Perhaps it should be done by \document if need be. + +Corrected: Version 2.1b + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 11-Jun-1992 (mjd) + +Four skip assignments (\leftskip etc.) in \makefootnote@ should +really use \z@skip instead of \z@. + +Corrected: Version 2.1b + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 24-FEB-1992 (mjd) + +(Change, not bug): Restore \nologo command (popular behest). + +Corrected: Version 2.1b + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty/doc +Date reported: 24-JAN-1992 (M. Luskin) + +Comma is printed at the beginning of a \ref if \by is omitted. + +Fix: Insert \kern-1sp [ = \nofrills] in \endref@ after the key/number. + +Corrected: Version 2.1b + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +%%% ==================================================================== + +Changes released January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 20-JAN-1992 (M. F. Bridgland) + +Problem with \moreref if the additional part of the ref is a different +type than the first part of the ref. (Distinguishing three main types: +book, journal paper, proceedings paper.) In the following example +the journal name fails to print and the volume number is printed +as 'vol. 34', instead of '{\bf 34}'. + +\ref + \no 3 + \by G. Bracha + \paper An $O(\log n)$ expected rounds randomized Byzantine +generals algorithm + \paperinfo preliminary version + \inbook Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory +of Computing + \yr 1985 + \pages 316--326 + \moreref + \paperinfo final version + \jour J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. + \vol 34 + \yr 1987 + \pages 910--920 + \endref + +Corrected: Version 2.1a, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsguide.tex +Date reported: 12-DEC-1991 (Guenter Rote (rote@kop.tu-graz.ada.at)) + +p. 22, under "negated arrows", \leftarrow should be \nleftarrow. +Reference number (now 2320) should be 2338, and arrow should be slashed. + +Corrected: Version 2.1b, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 29-NOV-1991 (M. F. Bridgland) + +If numbered references are followed by unnumbered ones, the first +unnumbered one is given a spurious number which consists of the value +sent to \widestnumber to establish the label width. + +Corrected: Version 2.1a, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 8-OCT-1991 (A. Sudakov) + +\Monograph sets `\demofont@' and `\proclaimfont@' when the names +actually used by \proclaim is \proclaimheadfont@ and \demo +(in version 2.1 of amsppt.sty) calls \remark and hence should +modify \remarkheadfont@. + +Corrected: Version 2.1a, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 5-SEP-1991 (A. Meyerowitz) + +amsppt.sty 2.1 might as well include \loadmsam and \loadmsbm +before \UseAMSsymbols, so that it works even if used with +an AMSTeX 2.0 format file. + +Corrected: Version 2.1a, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 28-AUG-1991 (mjd) + +In a \ref, when using \book, we might as well print out \eds and +\pages or \page info (even though in AMS style this information +is normally omitted). \eds will print anyway if \by is omitted, so the +problem case is only when both \by and \eds are used in the same +reference (surely it's a bit rare in citing a monograph to list both +the author and an editor...) + +Corrected: Version 2.1a, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 23-AUG-1991 (mjd) + +Spacing above/below \block is imperfect. When used in +vertical mode, the \noindent causes +the short dislay skips to be used, which is then overcompensated +for, on the top only, with the \vskip\abovedisplayskip. + +% \block is intended for typing long quotes in a block, indented +% on both margins. If we're not in horizontal mode, we do a +% \noindent to avoid getting an extra blank line before the +% display. +% +\def\block{\RIfMIfI@\nondmatherr@\block\fi + \else\ifvmode\vskip\abovedisplayskip\noindent\fi + $$\def\endblock{\par\egroup$$}\fi + \vbox\bgroup\advance\hsize-2\indenti\noindent} +\def\endblock{\par\egroup} + +Corrected: Version 2.1a, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 22-AUG-1991 (MJD) + +The definition of \page in \toc@ needs to be localized, otherwise +it will cancel the proper definition of \page for use in +\ref, if a \toc and a \Refs occur in the same file. + +\def\toc@#1{\relaxnext@ + \def\page##1% + {\unskip\penalty0\null\hfil + \rlap{\hbox to\wd\pagesbox@{\quad\hfil##1}}\hfilneg\penalty\@M}% + +Corrected: Version 2.1a, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 21-AUG-1991 (T. Shifrin) + +\Runinitem causes an `extra \endroster' error every time. + +Corrected: Version 2.1a, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsguide.tex +Date reported: 21-AUG-1991 (L. Evens) + +The AMSTeX User's Guide contains an incorrect example regarding the +TOC entry for \head. + +> It turns out that I was misled by the +> AmSTeX 2.0 User's Guide which is not very clear about how to use +> these macros. In particular, one of its examples (p. 8) won't work: +> +> \toc +> ... +> \head Continuous complex-valued functions\page{1}\endhead +> ... +> \endtoc +> +> I think this may work if there are two spaces between `\head' +> and `Continuous', but it certainly doesn't work with one space which +> is what appears to be in the User's Guide. Fortunately, I was +> able to work out the correct syntax by examining the macro definition +> in amsppt.sty. +> The documentation should be changed to emphasize that +> one should put {} followed by a space before any text without +> a caption. + +Corrected: Version 2.1b, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt.sty +Date reported: 17-MAY-1991 (mjd) + +An author in a \ref...\endref structure used \no for the reference +number and also mistakenly used \no to attempt to produce an issue +number. This resulted in the reference number having the issue number +value. It should be fairly simple to add an \ifvoid test when +putting reference data in a box to make sure the box is void; +if not, give a warning to the user about the command being used twice +inside one \ref (or \moreref or \transl) unit. + +Corrected: Version 2.1a, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSPPT.STY +Date reported: 14-FEB-1991 (RMG) + +Slanted fonts should be changed to italic for consistency with AMS +publications. + +Corrected: Version 2.1b, January 1992 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +%%% ==================================================================== + +Changes released August 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: amsppt1.tex +Date reported: 3-JUL-1991 (D. Feldman et al.) + +Extra { after \message in the first definition of \enddocument +causes an error message when the file is input. + +Corrected: Version 2.1b, August 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +Changes made in Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSTEX.TEX +Date reported: 7-FEB-1991 + +It seems that there was an error in copying the definition of \pmb@ +from the TeXbook (p. 386)---there should not be a minus sign in +"\kern-.05em". + +---Made some additional adjustments to tune the `boldness' further +(it's hard, though, to find a good compromise that produces +distinctly bold subscript characters and not too-bold text-size +characters). + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + File: INSTALLATION PROGRAM + Date reported: 21-JAN-1991 + + (1) In the second prompt message "fonts" should be changed to "files". + (2) Maybe a warning about not needing to press Return key. + (3) Error during TFM file move step did not prevent the + "AMSTeX successfully installed" message from appearing. + (4) Omitting the initial backslash from the directory names given + in response to the questions causes problems. + +(1) corrected Version 2.1, May 1991 +(2) Many DOS applications do not require use of Return key; left as is. +(3) Wording of final line changed for Version 2.1, May 1991 +(4) Warning about necessity of backslash included in Version 2.1, May 1991. + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSPPT.STY +Date reported: 14-DEC-1990 + +User's guide should explain how to make an amsppt format file, not just +an amstex format. For users with smaller, comparatively slower systems, +this saves quite a bit of time every time they run AMSTeX. + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSINST.TEX (now part of AMSGUIDE.TEX) +Date reported: 11-DEC-1990 + +Font cmbsy10 used in installation guide at a large size (18pt) +caused problems for some people who don't have it at that size. + +---Problem has been resolved in the new amsguide.tex that incorporates +the installation instructions, by eliminating the large title where the +font occurred. + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSTEX.TEX +Date reported: 3-DEC-1990 + +\loadeusm, etc. should not do \newfam if the family is already loaded +(should check to see if, e.g., \eusmfam is already defined). One +user ran into trouble because \loadmsam, \loadmsbm and \loadeufm +were done in the format file and therefore when amsppt.sty was +loaded the three family assignments were duplicated. + +---Changed the \load commands to undefine themselves after their +first use. This also saves a little main memory. + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSPPT.STY +Date reported: 28-NOV-1990 (H. P. Boas) + +In definition of \thanks, \unskip was erroneously placed after the +period instead of before. + +---Fixed by removing the period and requiring it to be typed by the +user. (\thanks could conceivably contain more than one sentence.) + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSTEX.TEX +Date reported: 5-NOV-1990 + +In \rightarrowfill and similar things the minus sign should be smashed +(as in plain.tex \relbar). Compare + + $$\buildrel\textstyle\sim\over\longrightarrow$$ % plain + $$\overset\tsize\sim\to\longrightarrow$$ % AMSTeX + $$A @>\tsize\sim>> B$$ % @>>> uses \rightarrowfill + +---\rightarrowfill is defined in plain.tex, actually. AMSTEX.TEX +also defines \rightarrowfill@. Smashing \rightarrowfill is nontrivial +(perhaps that's why Knuth didn't do it). + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSTEX.TEX +Date reported: 5-NOV-1990 + +\intertext should add penalties to discourage page breaks; as a minimum, +there should be \penalty\predisplaypenalty added before the second +\vskip: + +\def\intertext@{\def\intertext##1{\crcr\noalign{\vskip\belowdisplayskip + \vbox{\normalbaselines\noindent##1}\penalty\predisplaypenalty + \vskip\abovedisplayskip}}} + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSPPT.STY +Date reported: 3-OCT-1990 + +The figure caption macros should treat + + \fc{Figure 1} + \endfc + +the same as + + \fc{Figure 1}\endfc + +In other words the test to see if the second argument is empty should +work even when the second argument is a blank space. + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSPPT.STY +Date reported: 1-OCT-1990 (Silvio Levy) + +\penaltyandskip@ macro needs to have \par at the beginning. + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSPPT.STY +Date reported: 1-SEP-1990 + +\widestnumber\item doesn't work as claimed in the user's guide. + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSPPT.STY +Date reported: 1-MAR-1990 + +Line breaking in \Refs section doesn't work properly after explicit +hyphens, or after mathbins and mathrels, because of setting the +text in \hbox's. + +---Substantial changes in the internal workings of \ref and related +macros. + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +File: AMSPPT.STY +Date reported: 1-FEB-1990 + +Missing \endkeywords, \endsubjclass, and \endsubhead, among others, +produce a puzzling error message ("Use of \next@ does not match its +definition"). + +---Involved substantial changes to \nofrills mechanism (internal +implementation, not user interface). + +Corrected: Version 2.1, June 1991 + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +%%% ==================================================================== + +Problems reported, not resolved + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: amsppt.sty +%% Date reported: 2000/12/04 +%% +%% Footnote in bibliography entry disappears, along with the element to +%% which the footnote is attached; this is a consequence of extensive +%% boxing in compiling a reference. Fixing this is too complicated; +%% however, a warning message will be issued, and the problem has been +%% documented in amsppt.faq. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: amsppt.sty +%% Date reported: 2000/08/24 +%% +%% When no data present for \email...\endemail, label is generated with +%% no data. For other top matter elements, blank footnotes appear. +%% +%% It's not obvious where or how to check whether an element is empty; +%% all these begin by recycling \savedef@. Documentation added that +%% empty fields should be omitted. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: amsppt.sty, amsppt.sti +%% Date reported: 1999/03/05 +%% +%% Requested that pre-1997 page dimensions be restored for backward +%% compatibility, especially when using magnification. This will not be +%% done, as amsppt.sty is supposed to match AMS document specifications. +%% However, a modification has been placed in amsppt.sti (the local +%% adjustments), commented out, with code to compensate for the change. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: amstex.tex +%% Date reported: 1998/09/24 +%% +%% When used with the e-plain arrow.tex package, \leavevmode in the +%% definition of \finsm@sh (\smash) disrupts the proper setting of +%% horizontal arrows. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: amsppt.sty +%% Date reported: 1997/09/24 +%% +%% If two \proclaim's are adjacent, and a page break falls between them, +%% the post-proclaim space is at the bottom of the page, giving a short +%% page. +%% +%% Not changed; to do so would cause changes in existing documents. +%% Manual workaround: include \pagebreak as the last thing before +%% \endproclaim; similarly for \enddemo. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: amsppt.sty +%% Date reported: 1997/01/08 +%% +%% When \linespacing is set to a value >1, in multiline displays with +%% tagged lines, a vertical bar appears before the tags. +%% Could not reproduce problem +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: amstex.tex +%% Date reported: 1-JUL-1991 (N. Poppelier) +%% +%% The algorithm used in determining whether to move a tag to a separate +%% line in \align is incorrect: it appears that the tag will be moved if +%% the space available is less than 2w (allowing for centering also), where +%% w is the width of the tag, when it would be better to not move it unless +%% the space is less than (w + 1 em), and also uncenter the main part of +%% the display if necessary in order to fit the tag (this is the algorithm +%% used by \eqno & \leqno). +%% +%% Need to check \split also. This bug has been reported before +%% by other people also. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: amstex.tex +%% Date reported: 26-JUN-1991 (J. Walker) +%% +%% \@ins and perhaps also \topcaption, \botcaption should be +%% defined in amstex.tex, rather than amsppt.sty. The +%% Joy of TeX description of using \midinsert and \topinsert +%% implies that the use of amsppt is not necessary, when +%% currently it is. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: AMSTEX.TEX +%% Date reported: 11-JUN-1991 (MJD) +%% +%% \dotsspace@ should by default be set to give the same spacing as +%% for \dots? +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: AMSTEX.TEX +%% Date reported: 10-JUN-1991 (MJD) +%% +%% \align (and presumably other display alignments) never use +%% \abovedisplayshortskip even when the first line of the display +%% would permit it. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: AMSPPT.STY +%% Date reported: 19-MAR-1991 +%% +%% Page break can happen between \subhead and \subsubhead in some +%% circumstances. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: AMSPPT.STY +%% Date reported: 21-FEB-1991 +%% +%% \Runinitem doesn't work as claimed for a roster at the beginning +%% of a \proclaim or anything similar. Probably will require a change +%% in the user syntax to do it properly. So the users' guide would +%% need changing at the same time. +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: INSTALLATION PROGRAM +%% Date reported: 21-JAN-1991 +%% +%% One user with an IBM PC/PS2 model 50, an IBM SCII adapter and a large +%% SCII disc partitioned into two logical disks D: and E: had trouble with +%% the PC installation program: it refused to recognize the existence of +%% drive E: +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% File: AMSTEX.TEX +%% Date reported: 7-MAR-1990 (Weng Chew) +%% +%% \alignat allows a tag to overprint rather than moving it to a separate +%% line if necessary. Also apparently \alignat may sometimes cause an +%% `overfull' black box in the margin even when the material appears to +%% fit within the margins. (Perhaps Chew had a \right. on the right-hand +%% side. If not then something may need to be fixed.) +%% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% |