David writes: > I don't know of any converter myself, but do you have any idea why > they still use amstex. In some cases, it may be due to the reputation of the AMS. Some mathematicians may see this as the "real" in-house markup system, and therefore a classy way to typset math. Others dislike using big packages, and see amstex as closer to plain tex than latex. In any case, it took some of my colleagues a long time to realize the value of latex, and others haven't gotten there yet. > Also in what way do you want to treat the latex. I'd like to get something that will convert to real latex syntax, so I can then use latex classes with custom features (e.g., customized hyperlinking features). The alternative seems to be to directly duplicate the latex classes in amstex, which is quite a bit nastier to work with on the class level. The most formidable difficulty for any system of processing amstex papers would seem to be dealing with the bibliographic syntax/system. (Perhaps amstex --> bibtex would be the best route for this, if a conversion existed for the rest of the markup.) --Mark