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.