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Article #1852Re: Need help to fix my macro
From: David Kastrup
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:17
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:17
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jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee) writes:
>Hello. Somehow I must have made a mistake in the following latex macro:
>\def\content#1\endcontent{\def\@content{#1}}
>\def\endcontent{}
>When I use the above macro in a LaTeX file like this
>\begin{content}
>bla bla bla
>\end{content}
>I get an error saying something reach the end of file while scanning
>the use of content or something like that.
>What mistake do I make and how to correct it?
Well, TeX cannot see that \end{content} is the same as \endcontent. The
easiest remedy is to not use \begin and \end.
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