Achim Blumensath writes: > I've converted the amsthm style to the template system. The whole > process was extremely painless (except for reading the AMS code), > and the resulting code is much more readable than the original. nice work. sorry that i've gone silent will try to change that again, but just before the end of this bloddy year my company is requesting all of my time including weekend work and i don't find much energy to even turn on the computer for reading my mail --- this either changes on 1.1.2000 or else the world has gone to /dev/null anyway and typesetting isn't an issue frank