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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) offers access to a family of TeX-related products for the convenience of authors and MathSci searchers.

• The TeX program is not available from the AMS. It can be obtained
  • as freeware or shareware, or
  • from commercial TeX vendors.
• Our list of other TeX resources may also be helpful.
   
• CTAN (the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) is the principal public archive of TeX materials.
  • CTAN is a synchronized worldwide network of hosts and mirror sites which can be accessed either directly by FTP or via a Web browser.
  • Search CTAN by file name or keyword.

American Mathematical Society TeX Products

For the convenience of authors, the AMS supports a family of TeX-related style file collections, fonts, manuals, and author packages for preparing submissions to AMS publications.

• Three collections provide basic support for preparation of mathematical publications. Each collection includes a user's guide.
  • AMS-LaTeX v2
  • AMS-TeX v2.2
  • AMSFonts v3.0   
  
  The AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX collections are packaged for convenient retrieval by users of several different platforms:
  • PC (DOS and Windows),
  • Macintosh (for Textures, OzTeX or CMacTeX),
  • Unix.
  The AMSFonts collection is bundled as a zip file suitable for all platforms.
• Some additional LaTeX utilities are not part of the above collections:
  • amsrefs -- control bibliography style through LaTeX rather than BibTeX
  • snapshot -- create a list of external dependencies for a LaTeX document

Author packages

• Author packages based on AMS-LaTeX and AMS-TeX, and tailored to specific AMS books or journals, are available for most AMS publications.
• A grid showing the basic requirements for the page layout, for all standard-format books, is available as a
  • PostScript or a
  • PDF file.
  A good way to use the grid is to copy it onto a clear transparency for use as an overlay on the formatted output.
  This grid is designed particularly for authors who are not using TeX.
• Frequently asked questions are addressed in the AMS Author FAQ.

Tools for Reference Checking and Linking

• Authors can access the MR Database to verify and create references that can link to MathSciNet items and original sources.
• MRef is the free AMS tool for creating standard references with links to MathSciNet.
  • Input is unfielded, meaning that no special input format is required, beyond entering the author name(s) first.
  • Punctuation and formatting (e.g., TeX and HTML) is ignored.
  • MRef returns formatted bibliographic data together with active links to MathSciNet.
  • The formats include MathSciNet, BibTeX, and AMSRefs.
• MR Lookup is another free tool for referencing and linking available from the AMS.

Support for American Mathematical Society TeX Products

• Support for these products is available from

  Technical Support
  Publications Technical Group
  American Mathematical Society
  201 Charles Street
  Providence, RI 02904-2294
   
  Email: tech-support@ams.org

• The AMS on-line bookstore contains a selection of TeX-related titles and other works relevant to writing mathematics.