---
name: "lamstex"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tetex-base"
version: "0.4pl6-5"
release: "Debian 1.3 (Bo)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lamstex"
---

# lamstex(1)

structured text formatting and typesetting

## 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)](/tex/1.md) 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)](/amslatex/1.md), [**amstex**(1)](/amstex/1.md), [**latex**(1)](/latex/1.md), [**tex**(1)](/tex/1.md), [**slitex**(1)](/slitex/1.md).\
 Michael Spivak, *LAmS-TeX: The Synthesis*, The TeXplorators Corporation, 3701 W. Alabama, Suite 450-273, Houston, TX 77027, USA, 1989.