Subsequently, she has had wide-ranging experience with TeX and TeX related software. Besides writing multi-user macro packages used by many book and journal publishing companies, she has written custom macro sets for database applications, for software documentation, and for producing prelinked PDF files from LaTeX sources. She thinks that uses for LaTeX are only beginning to be explored, and welcomes the opportunity to develop further innovative uses for LaTeX in combination with PostScript and Acrobat.

Amy has provided LaTeX training in many cities in the US and in The Netherlands, including teaching a course in Beginning LaTeX more than 20 times for the support staff at MIT, as well as teaching classes on-site for clients all over the US.

She has produced hundreds of books for major publishing companies starting from author supplied LaTeX files, producing final camera ready PDF, and writing custom style files to match the publisher's specifications.

She has written articles for the TeX Users Group magazine and has given talks on macro writing at the TUG meetings in College Station, Texas and NYC, at the Netherlands SGML/NTG meeting, and at the European TeX Users Group meeting at Cork, Ireland.

Past Contract Work Some of our past contract work include database publishing, for IEEE  who needed help in the process of translating approximately 500,000 articles from SGML with embedded TeX code into HTML form; for Hewlett Packard  translating documents from SGML to TeX to be used in slides for in-house training; and for InterMetrics  who distributed information about their software in LaTeX in tables several hundreds of pages long.

More recent innovations use parsing of data using LaTeX. For example we showed that it was possible to parse a PDF form for an Architectural Specifications company that routinely produces documents that are as long as 20,000 pages, building the document from pre-existing units, based on the requirements of the particular project, be it a high rise or shopping center. The specifics for the project may be entered in the form, and then LaTeX used to parse the form and bring in the appropriate sub documents, automating the building the large specifications document.