<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 5 Oct 2007, at 2:01 pm, Lantz Susan wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I'm a new member of the list, and a new user of TeX-Live (MacTeX), although I've been using </SPAN><ST1:STATE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">TeX</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:STATE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> for more than 15 years. I'm running MacTeX on a Mac iBook G4 with OS X 10.4.6. I installed MacTeX last weekend without any problem, and it has run without a hitch (once I realized I had created the texmf folder for my personal style files in the wrong library).</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I have always used plain </SPAN><ST1:STATE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">TeX</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:STATE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> or AMS-TeX. Since MacTex didn’t install the AMS-TeX format (is there a reason for that?), I’m wondering if I create it by running</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 48px; "><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: 48px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: 48px; ">\input amstex.tex</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: 48px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 48px; "><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: 48px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: 48px; ">\dump</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: 48px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">and ``typesetting'' it using Initex? I'm also not certain where I should put the format file once I've created it. (The instructions I found on the AMS site are for Windows.)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>Even simpler: you should be able to run<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> fmtutil --byfmt amstex</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>in the Terminal, and the format file will be created and installed for you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This will install the format in your personal home directory (in the hidden .texlive2007 tree); alternatively,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> sudo -H fmtutil-sys --byfmt amstex</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>will install it in the system-wide texmf-var tree. Either should work fine, as I guess you're not sharing this system with other TeX users.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>JK</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>