This collection comprises a set of four manuals, or Author
Handbooks, each documenting the use of a class of publications
based on one of the AMS document classes amsart, amsbook,
amsproc and one "hybrid", as well as a guide to the generation
of the four manuals from a coordinated set of LaTeX source
files. The Handbooks comprise the user documentation for the
pertinent document classes. As the source for the Handbooks
consists of a large number of files, and the intended output is
multiple different documents, the principles underlying this
collection can be used as a model for similar projects. The
manual "Compiling the AMS Author Handbooks" provides
information about the structure of and interaction between the
various components.
