27 December 1992                                                LAMSTEX(1)



   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.
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     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,
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     3701 W. Alabama, Suite 450-273, Houston, TX 77027, USA, 1989.