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.


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