X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1152" "Thu" "28" "August" "1997" "11:52:10" "-0400" "AMS Technical Support" "tech-support@MATH.AMS.ORG" nil "35" "Re: Problem with LaTeX 6/97 and AMSLaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "8" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26820; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:54:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.87A238D6@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:51:52 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 190859 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:52:09 +0200 Received: from math.ams.org (math.ams.org [130.44.210.14]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id RAA22102 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:52:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from axp14.ams.org by math.ams.org via smtpd (for relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.201]) with SMTP; 28 Aug 1997 15:52:33 UT Received: from AXP14.AMS.ORG by AXP14.AMS.ORG (PMDF V5.1-8 #1) id <01IMYWPDXMKG000165@AXP14.AMS.ORG> for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:52:10 EST MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Mail-system-version: Message-ID: <872783530.112254.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <3402B794.15FB@logic.at> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:52:10 -0400 From: AMS Technical Support Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Problem with LaTeX 6/97 and AMSLaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2294 norbert preining has reported a problem in the use of the sauter-style ulasy.fd file with the amsmath package. the problem that is encountered is related to the fact that quite a bit of math font loading must occur the first time math mode is entered. math font loading is rather complicated. i'm not sure of the exact cause of the error being reported (and the ams-latex developer is out of the office until next week), but there's a simple workaround. if you force math mode to be initialized in a less involved environment, the error very nicely goes away. this is what i did: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{latexsym} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} $ $% force initialization of math mode \begin{multline*} x \end{multline*} \end{document} this may be a bit inconvenient, but you can most likely find a place early in your document where it shouldn't have any real side effects. i have put the report onto our queue for investigation when time permits. Barbara Beeton Technical Support Electronic Products and Services American Mathematical Society Phone: 800-321-4AMS (321-4267) or 401-455-4080 Internet: tech-support@ams.org