The document aims to get you up and running with AMS-LaTeX as quickly as possible. These instructions (along with a template file template.tex) are not a substitute for the full documentation, but they may get you started quickly enough so that you will only need to refer to the main documentation occasionally.

In addition to ‘AMS-LaTeX out of the box’, the document contains:

• a section describing how to draw commutative diagrams using Xy-pic; and
• a section describing how to use amsrefs to create a bibliography.

The author is Philip S. Hirschhorn. The package is Copyright © 2000,2008,2009 Philip S. Hirschhorn.