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From: c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip)
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Subject: Re: AmS-TeX
Summary: amstex version 2.0; LAmS-TeX
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Date: 15 Dec 89 07:00:17 GMT
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In <3604@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (D.A. Hosek) writes>
>In <4763@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>>What is the lastest version of the AmS-TeX macros?  . . .
>1.1d is currently the latest version of the macros. . . .
>Michael Spivak, author of AmS-TeX, also has a new, non-AMS, product
>which will be released soon called LAmS-TeX, which is sort of a cross
>between AmS-TeX and LaTeX.

The December AMS Notices has a full page add for Spivak's LamsTeX.  The ad
has some pretty spiffy 3d commutative diagrams (well, actually I haven't
checked whether they commute) and an example of a rather complicated table.
The add also says that LamsTeX will come with the latest amstex: Version
2.0.

I have heard that Spivak only agreed to work on LamsTeX because Duane Bibby
agreed to illustrate the new manual, and include a picture of the TeX lion
lying down with the Lam.  I also heard that LamsTeX comes with some nice
specially designed fonts to handle things like slanted arrows.

Now to quote the ad:
"All the functionality of LaTeX with much greater flexibility and all the
features of AMS-TeX plus complicated commutative diagrams, complicated
tables and much much more!  
--Latest amstex.tex (Version 2.0)
--Lams macro packages
--300 page Manual . . .
--Fonts for commutative diagrams . . . MetaFont sources . . . Mac versions
  with fonts for TeXtures
--dvipaste program for including tables in files
--index program
Single user price $95."

The address given for orders is The TeXplorators Corporation, 3701 W.
Alabama, Suite 450-273, Houston, Texas 77027.

So has anyone out there actually seen this product?  Tried it?
Any new news on the new AMS products?

--Walter
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