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It is indeed a lucky author who is given the opportunity to completely rewrite a
book barely a year after its publication. Writing about software affords such opportunities
(especially if the original edition sold out), since the author is shooting
at a moving target.

LATEX andAMS-LATEX improved dramatically with the release of the new standard
LATEX (called LATEX2") in June of 1994 and the revision of AMS-LATEX (version
1.2) in February of 1995. The change in AMS-LATEX is profound. LATEX2" made it possible for AMS-LATEX to join the LATEX world. One of the main points of the present book is to make this clear. This book introduces LATEX as a tool for mathematical typesetting, and treats AMS-LATEX as a set of enhancements to the standard LATEX, to be used in conjunction with hundreds of other LATEX2" enhancements.

I amnot a TEX expert. Learning the mysteries of the system has given me great
respect for those who crafted it: Donald Knuth, Leslie Lamport, Michael Spivak,
and others did the original work; David Carlisle, Michael J. Downes, David M.
Jones, Frank Mittelbach, Rainer Sch¨opf, and many others built on the work of
these pioneers to create the new LATEX and AMS-LATEX.

Many of these experts and a multitude of others helped me while I was writing
this book. I would like to express my deepest appreciation and heartfelt thanks to
all who gave their time so generously. Their story is told in the Afterword.

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