At 20:39 -0400 97/10/07, Mark Steinberger wrote:
>Many journals these days work from author-created tex files, and a
>substantial portion of the authoring community uses amstex.

  I think the reason for this, is that the early versions of AMS-LaTeX had
problems. But are there any reasons for still using AMS-TeX?

>It sure would be nice if someone would distribute a good amstex to latex
>converter.
..
>I'm told the AMS has such a converter for in-house use, but I don't
>know of one available to the public.

  This seems to be a good idea: It is not difficult to do the conversions
by hand (that is, if each author does it), but a converter would surely
help promoting AMS-LaTeX.

  Hans Aberg
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