the snitchy little upload daemon whispered in my ear:
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX, Version 2.1 Author's name: Philip S. Hirschhorn Location on CTAN: tex-archive/info/amslatex/primer/ Summary description: A primer on using AMS-LaTeX License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
This is version 2.1 of Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX (contained in the file amshelp.tex), and its template file template.tex.
This is an attempt to get you up and running with AmS-LaTeX as quickly as possible. These instructions (along with the template file template.tex) won't be a substitute for the full documentation, but they may get you started quickly enough so that you'll only need to refer to the main documentation occasionally.
The major additions in this version are:
A new section describing how to draw commutative diagrams using Xy-pic.
A new section describing how to use amsrefs to create a bibliography.
An expanded description of the environments for displayed mathematics.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amslatex-primer.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/tex-archive/info/amslatex/primer/
i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. one small -- but important -- change to the catalogue entry (removing the last paragraph of the description) was not committed last night, so the web page will change again overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team