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  1. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!skule.ecf!drill.me!ie.utoronto.ca!xiao
  3. From: xiao@ie.utoronto.ca (Yan Xiao)
  4. Subject: Re: Excluding text from processing
  5. Message-ID: <Bzp292.B4z@ie.utoronto.ca>
  6. Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering
  7. References: <MAILQUEUE-101.921221141636.480@mail.lshtm.ac.uk> <1h59iqINNgtq@golem.wcc.govt.nz> <lubkt.5.725063774@lehigh.edu>
  8. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:10:14 GMT
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  11. lubkt@lehigh.edu (Binod K. Taterway) writes:
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  13. >In article <1h59iqINNgtq@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wright@med.wcc.govt.nz (Steve Wright  Phone +64 04 801 3735) writes:
  14. >>In article <MAILQUEUE-101.921221141636.480@mail.lshtm.ac.uk>, ABARROS@lshtm.ac.uk (Aluisio J D Barros) writes:
  15.  
  16. >>>How can I exclude a chunk of text from being processed? I mean, as if
  17.  
  18. >How about
  19. >\def\comment#1{}
  20. >Caveat: The above approach won't work if you have more than a paragraph.
  21.  
  22. I use
  23. \long\def\comment#1{}
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  25. Caveat: you get extra spacing where comment is in some cases.
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  27. Xiao
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