Date: 9 August 91 Message No: 031 To: TeX implementors and distributors From: Barbara Beeton Subject: Quick update on e-math.ams.com Within the past few weeks, the e-math archive at AMS has been completely refreshed. Highlights of the update include: - AMS-TeX version 2.1 -- bug fixes and some minor enhancements The file ams/amstex/amstex.bug gives the detail of changes. - AMS-LaTeX version 1.1 -- bug fixes Current versions of the Mittelbach/Schoepf new font selection scheme files are now posted, as well as the reference versions of latex.tex and lplain.tex . The BibTeX style amslpha.bst is now a true "alpha" style, and produces bibliographic input according to AMS style requirements. The file ams/amslatex/amslatex.bug gives the detail of changes. - AMSFonts version 2.1 -- substantial bug fixes, including elimination of the problems that caused the ms* fonts to get different checksums and .tfm dimensions at different resolutions. .mf sources for the AMSfonts are now packaged as a compressed tar file, in ams/amsfonts-sources.tar.Z , in addition to the ordinary ascii .mf files. .pk files are now available in resolutions of 180, 240 and 400dpi in addition to the 118 and 300dpi available previously. - Author guidelines for submitting electronic manuscripts to the AMS using AMS-LaTeX are new. A consistent change to all macro and text files originating at AMS is the installation of new identification blocks, based on the BibTeX format recommended by Nelson Beebe. I have received a note from Don Knuth concerning a bug (in Plain) reported in June: "... the correction will go in officially in fall when I make the next update." I will be out of town from August 15-September 3, and from September 20- October 16. (Among other commitments, I will be attending the TeX91 and Gutenberg meetings in Paris.) I will not be accessible by e-mail during that time, so any messages received then will wait until my return. ######################################################################## %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Character code reference %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % Upper case letters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ % Lower case letters: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz % Digits: 0123456789 % Square, curly, angle braces, parentheses: [] {} <> () % Backslash, slash, vertical bar: \ / | % Punctuation: . ? ! , : ; % Underscore, hyphen, equals sign: _ - = % Quotes--right left double: ' ` " %"at", "number" "dollar", "percent", "and": @ # $ % & % "hat", "star", "plus", "tilde": ^ * + ~ % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% [ end of message 031 ]