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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no13/lamstex b/info/digests/texline/no13/lamstex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4ae0856e5c --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texline/no13/lamstex @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +\title{\LamSTeX{} Goes Public} +\LamSTeX{}, version 2.0, is now public domain software. I am hoping that it +will be placed in various archives, and that TUG and others will distribute~% +it. + +For questions about \LamSTeX{}, I may be contacted via email: +{\tt spivak@math15.rice.edu} + +For those unfamiliar with \LamSTeX{}, {\it vis a vis} \LaTeX, here are some +salient points: +\bitem \LamSTeX{} is not $\cal AMS$-\LaTeX! +\bitem \LamSTeX{} is an extension of \AmSTeX, and thus almost completely +compatible with plain \TeX\ (an additional file, {\tt pcompat.tex}, provides +complete compatibility, by overriding certain changes made in \AmSTeX). + +\bitem \LamSTeX{} provides essentially the same functionality as \LaTeX, although +the syntax is usually more concise. + +\bitem \LamSTeX{} also provides this functionality in a much more flexible form; all +automatic numbering schemes can easily be modified for special +circumstances (many illustrations of the importance of this flexibility are +given in the \LamSTeX\ Manual). + +\bitem \LamSTeX{} can now interface with \BibTeX. + +\bitem \LamSTeX{} provides many additional fcatures, only a few of which can be +indicated here: + +\itemitem{(1)}Of particular interest are complicated commutative diagrams -- +at least as professional-looking as those that appear in journals -- and +partitioned matrices. + +\itemitem{(2)}The table macros generally provide much more professional +looking tables than other packages, because of the close attention to struts, +because of simple methods of extending lines between rows when needed, etc. + +\itemitem{(3)}\LamSTeX{} has an extensive set of commands for automatic +placement of figures and tables. + +\bitem Many \LaTeX\ difficulties just now being addressed have simply never existed +in \LamSTeX{}. For example, there are no such things as `fragile' commands in +\LamSTeX{}, and no worries about long |\write|'s and undesired expansions in +|\write|'s to auxiliary files (like the |.toc| file). Arbitrarily long literal +mode material can split across pages. + +\bitem The \LamSTeX{}{\it Wizard's Manual\/} provides {\sc extensive} +documention; it explains in complete detail the reasons for every single +device in the code. + +\bitem The \LamSTeX{} {\it Style File Designer's Manual\/} provides +documentation for designing style files; it is essentially an extract from +the {\it Wizard's Manual}, covering just those topics that might be needed by +style designers. + +\bitem Writing the {\it Wizard's Manual\/} afforded me the opportunity to +completely rewrite \LamSTeX{}. Version 2.0 has many small bug fixes, important +extensions, and more efficient code. In addition, the code is much more +modular, allowing changes for different style files to be made much more +easily. + +\bitem I will support \LamSTeX{} not only with bug fixes, but with extensions that +seem reasonable and desirable. + +The 300 page spiral bound \LamSTeX{} Manual, {\it \LamSTeX, The Synthesis}, +is \$30.00 (includes shipping). + +The 600 page {\it Wizard's Manual\/}, presumably of extremely +limited interest, is printed on demand. It is distributed in the form of +approximately 300 3-hole punched pages, printed (on both sides) by laser +printer. It is \$40.00, including shipping. (A free copy may be requested +with every order of 15 or more \LamSTeX{} Manual.) + +The {\it Style File Designer's Manual\/} is not yet complete. It will +probably be about 200 pages, spiral bound like the \LamSTeX{} Manual, and +sold at a bargain price (perhaps \$10.00, including shipping). + +All manuals may be purchased through \TeX plorators. +\author{Mike Spivak} +% 3701 W Alabama, Suite 450-273, Houston, TX 77027 + |