%% @txtfile{ %% filename = "amsppt.faq", %% version = "2.2", %% date = "2001/08/07", %% time = "13:53:55 EDT", %% checksum = "02733 194 1367 9268", %% filetype = "AMS-TeX: user documentation", %% author = "American Mathematical Society", %% copyright = "Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society, %% all rights reserved. Copying of this file is %% authorized only if either: %% (1) you make absolutely no changes to your copy %% including name; OR %% (2) if you do make changes, you first rename it %% to some other name.", %% address = "American Mathematical Society, %% Technical Support, %% Publications Technical Group, %% P. O. 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This is produced by %% Robert Solovay's checksum utility.", %% } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Frequently asked questions about AMS-TeX and amsppt.sty. 1) Why does the bottom of every page get cut off when \magnification is used? 2) How can I prepare a two-column index for a book using AMS-TeX? 3) I need 12pt type in my paper. How do I get it? 4) I need to put a footnote in my bibliography, but it disappears. How do I get it to print out? 5) A page ending with a theorem is shorter than other pages. Why? 6) Why am I getting a label ``E-mail address'' at the end of my paper with no data? 7) I need diagonal arrows in my commutative diagrams. How do I get them? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 1) Why does the bottom of every page get cut off when \magnification is used? Version 2.1 of amsppt.sty was modified (in January 1997) to make the output dimensions the same as those for the majority of AMS publications, in particular journals. This made it possible to simplify quite radically the AMS ``author packages'' for particular publications, thus (in the long run) avoiding questions that were demanding scarce support time. One of the January 1997 changes consisted in positioning the running head, i.e. the top of the type block, at the exact top of the normal print area, rather than ``above'' the print area as is the default in plain TeX. Although the default setting for laser printers starts the printing 1in down from the top edge of the paper, on a typesetter, that setting is traditionally 0 (to avoid wasting the expensive photographic medium), and unless special measures are taken, the running heads would print ``above'' the top, often overprinting something else or being lost off the edge, resulting in even greater waste of materials and time. In addition, running heads ``above'' the print area could not be checked in the previewers used at AMS. The earlier behavior can be restored by specifying \voffset-2pc when processing a document with amsppt.sty. This command is present, but commented out, in the file amsppt.sti, a file intended for the specification of local defaults. Since amsppt.sti is automatically read in by amsppt.sty, uncommenting the relevant command would adjust the position of output on paper sufficiently to accommodate magnification up to \magstep 1. Note that no AMS publication uses magnification as a technique for providing larger type; if larger type is desired, that is encoded into the relevant author package by providing additional fonts. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 2) How can I prepare a two-column index for a book using AMS-TeX? AMS-TeX was originally intended to provide only features to make it easier to typeset mathematical content -- display equations, theorems, and similar material. Niceties of formatting were to be provided by other packages such as LaTeX. Things didn't quite turn out that way, and AMS-TeX and LaTeX didn't merge as readily as was once hoped. It is still not planned to add advanced formatting features, including double columns, to AMS-TeX. However, some simple macros can be defined and used in an AMS-TeX source file to produce an .idx file, which can then be processed by the makeindex program. (Makeindex is included with all standard TeX distributions.) The resulting .ind file can be processed separately through (AMS-)LaTeX to create a two-column index. Macros compatible with makeindex and plain TeX (and therefore AMS-TeX) can be found on CTAN, in the area /tex-archive/macros/texsis/index/ Read the documentation that comes with makeindex and the comments in the file index.tex for instructions. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 3) I need 12pt type in my paper. How do I get it? This size isn't needed in most AMS publications, but when it is, it is defined for the author packages that need it. In particular, \twelvepoint is defined in the file ams-spec.sty, which is used with monographs and book proceedings. (\elevenpoint is also defined in ams-spec.sty.) The file amsspec.sty can be obtained as part of the gen-m (generic book) author package from the AMS web server: http://www.ams.org/tex/author-info.html Create a file called myfonts.tex. Begin that file with the line \savecat @ and end it with the line \restorecat @ Copy the definition of \twelvepoint and all associated \font@ commands from amsspec.sty into myfonts.tex. Then include the command \input myfonts in the preamble of your document file. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 4) I need to put a footnote in my bibliography, but it disappears. How do I get it to print out? Not only the footnote disappears, but also the element of the reference to which the footnote is attached. This happens because the parts of the footnote are boxed during processing, and footnotes disappear from boxed material. The solution is to use \footnotemark in the reference, and \footnotetext{...} after \endref. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 5) A page ending with a theorem is shorter than other pages. Why? If a page break occurs between two theorems, or between any combination of adjacent theorem or proof (\proclaim or \demo), the space following the first one will fall before a favorable penalty and will not be removed at the bottom of the page. This is due to a bug, in which the vertical space preceding a theorem or proof will be removed only if it is less than the space to be added In AMS style, the space above is the same as the space below, so what should have been done is test for a space less than or equal to the space to be added; however, to change this now could cause changes in the paging of existing documents. In order to get rid of the extra space, put \pagebreak immediately before the \endproclaim or \enddemo at the bottom of the page; this should, of course, be done only for the final run. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 6) Why am I getting a label ``E-mail address'' at the end of my paper with no data? In the topmatter templates for AMS author packages, all possible tags for subject and author information are included for convenience. If any of these are left in your file with no data, ``empty'' footnotes can appear on the first page (for \subjclass or \keywords), or labels associated with author addresses can appear at the end of a paper with no data. Checking for ``empty'' tags isn't easily accomplished, so an author should make sure that any tag that doesn't have data is removed or commented out. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 7) I need diagonal arrows in my commutative diagrams. How do I get them? The \CD structure of AMS-TeX provides only vertical and horizontal connectors. To get diagonal connectors, it is necessary to use another package. XY-pic, by Kristoffer Rose, provides many more facilities than \CD, and it is compatible with AMS-TeX. XY-pic can be found on CTAN, in the area /tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/ Be sure to read the excellent documentation, xyguide, which is available in dvi, PostScript and PDF form, ready to print. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%