Re: Excluding text from processing

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From: Nick Dokos
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:32

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   > How can I exclude a chunk of text from being processed? I mean, as if
   > all lines started with % signs. I have already tried to create an
   > environment like \start{ignorethis}...\end{ignorethis} but it did not
   > work.

   Maybe I'm not understanding what you're asking, but why not something
   really simple like:

      \def\ignore#1{}
	 ...
      \ignore{

       < text to be ignored >

      }

See Victor Eijkout's book "TeX by Topic" for the disadvantages of this
approach plus a a "better way of doing it". It's on p. 108.


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