Re: /dev/null as LaTeX environemt: How???

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From: James Kilfiger
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00

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Uwe Lammers wrote:
>Hi experts,
>
>I can immodestly claim to be quite an experienced TeX user but have not
>been able to come up with a satisfactory solution to the following problem:
>I want to write a new LaTeX environment which simply ignores everything
>that stands between \begin{null} ... \end{null}

Look at comment.sty, or you can use \iffalse...\fi.
These will ignore your text altogether. Otherwise you can use the color
package, redefine the \normalcolor to white, and (provided you haven't
made any colour changes) you will get a big blank space.  
HTH
	James

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From: mapdn@mimosa.csv.warwick.ac.uk (James Kilfiger)
Subject: Re: /dev/null as LaTeX environemt: How???
Date: 1999/09/01
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