X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1618" "Sat" "27" "November" "93" "00:46:39" "+0100" "Frank Mittelbach" "MITTELBACH@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "47" "Re: LaTeX2e and AMS-LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA16598; Sat, 27 Nov 93 00:47:41 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA04813; Sat, 27 Nov 93 00:47:39 +0100 Message-Id: <9311262347.AA04813@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6194; Sat, 27 Nov 93 00:45:56 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 6325; Sat, 27 Nov 93 00:45:37 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 6323; Sat, 27 Nov 93 00:45:33 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Sat, 27 Nov 93 00:46:39 +0100 From: Frank Mittelbach Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Re: LaTeX2e and AMS-LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1191 > Subj: LaTeX2e and AMS-LaTeX While the answer by Michel is correct, here a bit more details > i would like to know what is the exact connection (if any) > of LaTeX2e and AMS-LaTeX. Is some of the following cases > valid? > - LaTeX2e contains AMS-LaTeX (by this I mean commads from > amstex.sty). it does not contain the commands in the kernel since the math features are a specialisation which is not of interest to everybody. > - AMS-LaTeX (styles from AMS-LaTeX) can be run under LaTeX2e. the ams-latex files have been updated to run under NFSS2 and thus will run under LaTeX2e (to have one format for all flavors of LaTeX209 was the main reason for the decision to make LaTeX2e) this update currently doesn't make full use of new features in latex2e and the document class files amsart etc will therefore be probably polished a bit before they will officially released by the ams. > - Styles from AMS-LaTeX (mainly amstex) run under LaTeX2e > after some little rearrangemetns. the version that distributed with NFSS2 at the moment already runs > - Styles from AMS-LaTeX are not compatible with LaTeX2e > (I think that in this case most of users of AMS-LaTeX > will not want to use LaTeX2e - I hope that it is not > this case). yes, that would be bad policy and it is not the case. old ams-latex document will run under latex2e as well. however, since old ams-latex did use NFSS1 and since there was a change in the math interface, document defining new math alphabets will produce a warning suggesting to switch to the new syntax. > Thank you for your informations. hope this helps frank