[texhax] Amsart – LaTeX document class for AMS math journal articles

[Donald Arseneau]

On Tue, April 29, 2014 6:05 am, Walden, Steve wrote:
> Can you help? I’m trying to assist a user within our bank to get amsart
> setup within a Miktex application. I have downloaded an amsart package but
> I can’t find any instructions of where to install the files. We have no
> support here for this application but I was hoping to learn something from
> this assistance. It may be a case of me not copying the files to the
> correct location on the c:drive.
> I got the package from this location http://www.ctan.org/pkg/amsart
> Any assistance would be great

Hello Steve.

I wonder what state the miktex installation is in, because amsart
is a standard part of any LaTeX distribution, so it should be there
already. Can the user process documents of other document classes
like "article"?

The ams class files should be at <TEXMF>\tex\latex\amscls
where "<TEXMF>" means the root of the TeX files of your miktek
installation (article.cls should be at <TEXMF>\tex\latex\base).

>From that CTAN web page there is also amscls.tds.zip which should
unpack everything into the appropriate standard location.

You can see the installation instructions at
   ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/amslatex/install.txt
or
   http://mirror.ctan.org/ctan/macros/latex/required/amslatex/amscls/doc/install.txt
or inside the zip file you already downloaded.

(I see an item 5 that incorrectly refers to amsmath.sty instead of
amsart.cls: "To check the end result, you should find that you now
have amsmath.sty [sic] in the following location
  TEXMF/tex/latex/amscls/amsart.cls")


Responding unofficially for TUG

Donald Arseneau, TRIUMF CMMS, asnd at triumf.ca