This directory contains temporary test versions of the primary files in
the AMS-LaTeX distribution, for the purposes of testing with preliminary
releases of LaTeX2e. These files are only intended to run under the
compatibility mode of LaTeX2e; in other words they should work if your
document begins with

  \documentstyle{amsart}

or

  \documentstyle[amstex]{article}

but do not expect any reasonable results when calling one of these
*temporary test* versions via \documentclass or \usepackage. You may
happen to get satisfactory results in some instances, but that will
be by lucky coincidence rather than by design.

Development work is under way to produce version 1.2 of AMSLaTeX which
will be designed specifically for LaTeX2e. If all goes well AMSLaTeX 1.2
will be released more or less simultaneously with the first full,
official release of LaTeX2e, i.e. the release that makes LaTeX2.09
obsolete and makes `standard LaTeX' synonymous with LaTeX2e.

FONTS COMPATIBILITY NOTE

If you have existing AMSLaTeX documents that you wish to run with
LaTeX2e, you should add either `newlfont' or `oldlfont' to the
documentstyle options list, if it is not already present. To determine
which one to use, typeset the provided aftest.tex document with the
LaTeX format that you used for your OLD VERSION of AMSLaTeX.
Aftest.tex will print a message on screen (and in the TeX log) advising
you whether to use `newlfont' or `oldlfont'.