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luecking@comp.uark.edu (Daniel Luecking) writes:

>Uwe Lammers <ulammers@astro.estec.esa.nl> writes:

>>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}

>There is comment.sty by Victor Eikhout and also verbatim.sty (in the 
>tools bundle).  Use \begin|\end{comment}

>A roll-your-own solution is 
>\newenvironment{null}{\iffalse}{\fi}

This was really dumb of me.  I am mortified. 

I was going to suggest typing \iffalse ...\fi and then
thought, "what the heck, let's make it an environment". Pretty stupid,
since I _do_ know better (really). That's what I get for moving to LaTeX
from plainTeX, I forgot all I once knew.

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Dan Luecking                           Dept. of Mathematical Sciences     
luecking@comp.uark.edu                 University of Arkansas      
http://comp.uark.edu/~luecking/        Fayetteville, AR 72101