AMS-LaTeX is a collection of LaTeX document classes and packages developed for the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Its additions to LaTeX include the typesetting of multi-line and other mathematical statements, document classes, and fonts containing numerous mathematical symbols.^[1]

It has largely superseded the plain TeX macro package AMS-TeX. AMS-TeX was originally written by Michael Spivak, and was used by the AMS from 1983 to 1985.

The following code of the LaTeX2e produces the AMS-LaTeX logo ():

 %%% -- AMS-LaTeX_logo.tex ------- \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath}  \begin{document} \AmS-\LaTeX \end{document} %%% +----1----+----2----+----3--- 

The package has a suite of facilities to format multi-line equations. For example, the following code,

  \begin{align}    y &= (x+1)^2 \\      &= x^2+2x+1  \end{align} 

causes the equals signs in the two lines to be aligned with one another, like this:

[edit] See also

AMSRefs

[edit] References

1. ^ George Gratzer (1996). Math into LaTeX. ISBN 0-8176-3805-9. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/mil/mil.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-08. 

[edit] External links

• AMS TeX Resources
• TeX FAQ on AMS packages
• TeX FAQ on AMS-TeX

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