conditional inclusion or selection of texts

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From: Mingzuo Shen
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:20

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Hi all,

    I wonder if it is EASY to conditionally select
portion of a text to be included in one document
based on some defined variable. I have no programming
expertise in TeX (I am only interested in a solution in 
Plain TeX).

    Say I have a citation. For papers to be published in
journals, i do not
need the title of the citation. Just the authors,
name, journal name, page number, and year are needed.
But when I prepare a document for local use, 
I would like to also include the title of the citation
in my document. 

    Thanks in advance (sorry if this is a FAQ; I read the
FAQ some time ago and do not recall such a technique; I
have the TeXBook here but ...),

mingzuo shen

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From: shen@athena.cs.uga.edu (Mingzuo Shen)
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Subject: conditional inclusion or selection of texts
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