LAMSTEX(1)                                                       LAMSTEX(1)
                              27 December 1992






 NAME
      lamstex - structured text formatting and typesetting


 SYNOPSIS
      lamstex [ first line ]


 DESCRIPTION
      The LAmS-TeX language is described in the book LAmS-TeX: The
      Synthesis.  LAmS-TeX is a new system that augments AmSTeX with LaTeX-
      like features, but retains the syntactical flavor of AmSTeX.  It can
      be compared with AmSLaTeX, which augments LaTeX with AmSTeX-like
      features.


      LAmS-TeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification to the TeX source
      program, so all the capabilities described in tex(1) are present.


      The LAmS-TeX macros encourage writers to think about the content of
      their documents, rather than the form.  The ideal, not always
      realized, is to have no formatting commands (like ``switch to italic''
      or ``skip 2 picas'') in the document at all; instead, everything is
      done by specific markup instructions: ``emphasize'', ``start a
      section''.


 SEE ALSO
      amslatex(1), amstex(1), latex(1), tex(1), slitex(1).
      Michael Spivak, LAmS-TeX: The Synthesis, The TeXplorators Corporation,
      3701 W. Alabama, Suite 450-273, Houston, TX 77027, USA, 1989.






















































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