\ProvidesPackage{my_ams_style}
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
%LaTeX and BibTeX style files for American Meteorological Society publications.
%These are not authorized or approved by the AMS in any way. Use at your own
%risk!
%  (c) Lakshman, National Severe Storms Laboratory
%    http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~lakshman/ametsoc/

% ametsoc.bst is built on top of natbib
\RequirePackage{natbib}

%use Postscript times if available ... it's better looking than computer roman
\usepackage{times}


%AMS requires page numbers.
\pagestyle{plain}

% Article's default is to provide arabic numerals for everything.
% Change the formatting of section and lower to be the way AMS wants them.
\renewcommand{\thesection}{{\arabic{section}}}       % 1 in bold

% subsection ...
\renewcommand{\subsection}{\@startsection
{subsection}%
{2}% 2 is the level for subsection
{0mm}% NO indent, starts immediately
{-\baselineskip}% skips 1 baseline after end of previous subsection
{0.5\baselineskip}% half baseline and the first paragraph starts
{\normalfont\normalsize\itshape}%the style, all italics
}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\alph{subsection}} % letters

% subsubsection ...
\renewcommand{\subsubsection}{\@startsection
{subsubsection}%
{3}  % 3 is the level for subsubsection
{0mm}% NO indent, starts immediately
{-\baselineskip}% skips 1 baseline after end of previous subsubsection
{-2mm}% text starts on the same line
{\normalfont\normalsize\itshape}%the style, all italics
}
% roman numbers;  because this is run-in, we need a couple of spaces too.
\renewcommand{\thesubsubsection}{\roman{subsubsection}.~~}

% get rid of the fucking periods!

\renewcommand{\@seccntformat}[1]{{\csname the#1\endcsname}.\hspace{0.5em}}