Questions tagged [amstex]
AMS-TeX is the original implementation of support for convenient input of display mathematics. It requires plain tex, and cannot be used with LaTeX. The AMS-TeX facilities were converted to LaTeX as the amsmath package.
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Need help adding AMSTeX fonts to compile a 35-year old document
I have a 100-page document (my Ph.D. dissertation) that I created in the 1984-1985 time frame that I need to create a PDF from. I have not used TeX since about 1990 so my TeX knowledge is extremely ...
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sorting text file in plain TeX
I have seen Latex sort macros (for an index, which is precisely what I want, the index having several thousand entries); but I haven't seen one in plain (or AmS-TeX, for that matter; either is OK). ...
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How to configure the environment for AMS-tex?
I installed the Miktex, Winedt, and Texmaker in my PC.
And I saw that there is amstex in MikTex package manager. Unfortunately, I still can not successfully compile the files written in ams-tex, such ...
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How to run a file using amstex and amsppt packages?
I've got a file which contains the following:
\input amstex
\documentstyle {amsppt}
I've TeXnicCenter downloaded on my computer, I can open this file with it, but it doesn't want to build. Could you ...
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pdftex cannot find amstex
Running pdftex on a file consisting just of...
\input amstex
\bye
...these two lines, I get an
! I can't find file `amstex'.
error. I have amstex.sty located at
/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/...
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Remove date in amsppt
How to remove the 'date' when the following is used in the preamble ? Any help is appreciated.
\input amstex
\documentstyle{amsppt}
\magnification=\magstep1 %<====
\hsize6....
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(AMS)TeX proclaim environment
AMSTeX has a \proclaim macro that goes like this:
\proclaim{Theorem 10}
Text of the theorem
\endproclaim
which results in
Theorem 10. Text of the theorem.
In other words, this environment adds a ...
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Fonts in (AMS)TeX
The source files I am playing with are in ordinary (AMS)TeX, not LaTeX. I find TeX fontography (is this a word?) to be rather confusing. In other document processing (like OpenOffice or MSWord, or ...
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Incompatibility between opmac and amstex with xetex
Consider this simple document:
\input amstex
\input opmac
\hyperlinks \Blue \Green
\maketoc
\chap Chapter
\bye
If compiled with pdftex or luatex gives no problems; while with xetex gives ...
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AMSTeX accents, not in math mode
I need to have a dash (or a bar) over a letter in a name, say G\=o ro for Goro, with one o "accented". The TeXBook tells me to do this: \=o for the dash over o. It does not seem to be working. I also ...
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LaTeX package for Stackrel without AMSTeX
The section 2.1 of this Wikibook chapter on LaTex states: Without AmsTex the same result of \overset can be obtained with \stackrel. But I've not been able to use Stackrel without amsmath package. Is ...
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(AMS)TeX Chapter Title no running head
I am using (AMS)TeX for a book (I have a lovely old version of TeX on XP laptop that has a picture of a shell as its icon). And I am not using any specific book formats, I am using \documentstyle{...
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How to replace CM fonts with ones compatible with XeTeX (in amsppt.sty)?
I would like to try to patch amsppt.sty AMSTeX style file to make it
usable with XeTeX and non-Latin languages (Cyrillic). It looks like i need
to replace the following CM fonts or font families with ...
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Easy method to activate cyrplain package (CyrTeX)
I would like to have a Cyrillic version of TeX/AMSTeX. I have installed the cyrplain package, but further instructions are too long and technical for me, sometimes referring to README of other ...
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Rescuing/Compiling old TeX file starting with “\input amstex”
I have come across an ancient (1995) LaTeX file which was (surely) once compliant, but now does not compile at all. Is there any way to rescue it?
My actual question is much more precise. I want a ...
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Harvmac, Amstex
I am writing a file with Plain TeX using the harvmac macro. I have always used LaTeX until now. Two related questions about harvmac Vs. mathematical fonts:
I tried adding \input amstex to get the "...
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TeX question: how to switch between languages?
I am using TeX, with the macro package AmS-TeX. I'd like to use it with the Italian language, so that words are hyphenated the right way (e.g. the Italian word 'distante' should be broken as di-stante;...
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Footer: Typeset by AmS-TeX
How can I make a document display as a footer the text "Typeset by AmS-TeX"? I'm having trouble finding how to make this. Can you please help?
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