Sure. My point was that its not immediately obvious that its nonsensical to mix Latex and AMS macros (they are all after both just TeX macros). I saw no dire warnings about this in any of the AMS documents, or even in yours. Well, live and learn I guess.
"Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: > > so would \begin{equation}\frac{1}{2}\end{equation} be total nonsense? > > :-) > > equation is redefined by amsmath. However you should use > align instead of equation! > > Herbert > >