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 * AMS member: Listing <http://www.ams.org/cml/> * Email: Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]>