install.txt for amsrefs 2.12 [2013-01-24] Copyright 2002-2004, 2010, 2013 American Mathematical Society. This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later. This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'. The Current Maintainer of this work is the American Mathematical Society. American Mathematical Society Technical Support Publications Technical Group 201 Charles Street Providence, RI 02904 USA tel: (401) 455-4080 (800) 321-4267 (USA and Canada only) fax: (401) 331-3842 email: tech-support@ams.org Preliminary note: The normal destination directory for amsrefs.sty in a standard TDS structure is texmf/tex/latex/amsrefs (see step 3 below). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you have a relatively up-do-date TeX system that complies with the TeX Directory Structure (TDS) standard, installing according to the instructions in section I below is the easiest method. See http://www.tug.org/tds/tds.pdf for details on the TDS standard. If your TeX system does not comply with the TDS standard, please contact the manufacturer of your TeX system for details on how to install third-party TeX packages. The first step is to identify the TEXMF folder that contains files used by LaTeX. To do this, look for the file article.cls. If you find, e.g., /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls then we will define TEXMF to mean /usr/local/share/texmf (everything before the tex/latex/base part). On a Windows system the file location will probably be something like c:\sw\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls Then we define TEXMF to mean c:\sw\texmf. In the following instructions, wherever you see "TEXMF" substitute the folder name determined in this way. If this terminology does not make sense to you, seek assistance from a friend or colleague, or from the company that you bought your TeX system from, or contact us at one of the above addresses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Download the following archive file: ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/amsrefs/amsrefs.zip 2. View the following files to assess the effects of the upgrade on your system: README install.txt (this file) diffs-m.txt 3. Backup the old version of AMS-LaTeX, preferably by moving it out of the TEXMF tree. 4. Extract files from the .zip archive using your favorite unzip tool, setting the extraction target directory to the texmf root directory. 5. To check the end result, you should find that amsrefs.sty is now in the following location (substituting \ or : for / if appropriate): TEXMF/tex/latex/amsrefs/amsrefs.sty Some TeX systems such as TeX Live and MikTeX also use a database to keep track of TeX input files. If this database is not updated, your TeX system might not find the newly installed files. Consult your TeX system's documentation to determine how to update this database.