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From: levy@carrot.princeton.edu (Silvio Levy)
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Subject: Re: Summary: large comments in latex
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Date: 18 Oct 90 03:17:54 GMT
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irani@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Erach Irani) writes:

>This approach seems best
>\iffalse
> % all the text to ignore temporarily
>\fi
>and worked beautifully.

You were lucky.  If you had
\iffalse
blah blah \verb+\fi+ blah blah
\fi
or any other conditional in your "comment" you would have been screwed.

Use the comment environment that someone posted.  It's much more robust.

Silvio Levy