Re: author causes error with amsart

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"AK" == Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@nsx.pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> writes:

Atsuhito,

   AK> I thought it was not so clearly explained but I could see
   AK> the discussion in instr-l.tex.

It's not explained very clearly.  But I just finished editing the
third edition of George Gratzer's new book, _Math into LaTeX_,
which has a lot of material about the AMS document classes, so
it's in my head (I think George's book has a whole chapter on AMS
top-matter commands alone).


   >> It does look like the definition of the \author command has
   >> changed.  If you really hate the behavior, you might
   >> consider taking it up with the folks at the AMS.  Send
   >> e-mail to <tech-support@ams.org>.

   AK> I agreed that \author has changed but I think
   AK> diffs-{c,m}.txt should refer to this if this is really the
   AK> change of \author command.

I agree.  I'm not sure that the new behavior isn't a side effect
of a change made for some other purpose, though.  (I didn't really
try to figure out what the change did, just did a diff to see that
there is a change.)  You might want to let the AMS folks know that
the behavior of the \author command has changed, in case they
didn't change the behavior on purpose.


   AK> BTW, don't you (Amercan and/or European) think this change
   AK> so inconvenient?

I think it's part of the price you pay if you choose to use the
AMS document classes.  Personally, I really dislike the way they
format things so I never use them (I think maybe they're too
old-fashioned for my tastes).  I don't actually write anything
that requires much in the way of mathematical notation, so I just
use LaTeX's article document class for most things.  I could, and
probably should, make up my own modified class to change some of
the stuff I don't like about the article class, but I haven't
actually done so yet.

You probably know that you don't have to use the AMS classes to
get all the advantages of the AMS mathematical stuff -- you can
just load the packages: amsmath for basics, amsthm for theorems,
amssymb for additional symbols, amsfonts for access to the
AMSFonts (amsfonts may be automatically loaded by amsmath).

   CMC

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