AMSTeX - The Encyclopedia

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AMS-LaTeX is a collection of LaTeX document classes and packages developed for the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Its additions to LaTeX include the typesetting of multi-line and other mathematical statements, document classes, and fonts containing numerous mathematical symbols.^[1]

It has largely superseded the plain TeX macro package AMS-TeX. AMS-TeX was originally written by Michael Spivak, and was used by the AMS from 1983 to 1985.

The following code of the LaTeX2e produces the AMS-LaTeX logo ( $\AmS-\LaTeX$ ):

%%% -- AMS-LaTeX_logo.tex -------
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
%\usepackage[psamsfonts]{amssymb}

\begin{document}
\AmS-\LaTeX
\end{document}
%%% +----1----+----2----+----3---

One of the most important features of the package is the ability to control the formatting of multi-line equations. For example, the following code,

 \begin{align}
   y &= (x+1)^2 \\
     &= x^2+2x+1
 \end{align}

causes the equals signs in the two lines to be aligned with one another, like this:

$\begin{align} y &= (x+1)^2 \\ &= x^2+2x+1 \end{align}$

[edit] References

^ George Gratzer (1996). Math into LaTeX. ISBN 0-8176-3805-9. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/mil/mil.pdf. Retrieved on 8 October 2007.

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