lamstex1
Structured text formatting and typesetting
Usage
lamstex [first
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Overview
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''.