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.