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From: halldors@paul.rutgers.edu (Magnus M Halldorsson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Ignoring text in LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, comments, styles
Message-ID: <Apr.11.10.57.55.1990.18294@paul.rutgers.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 90 14:57:56 GMT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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The following simple macro will do it (thanks to Martin Carroll):

\newcommand{\comment}[1]{}

Magnus