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From: myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Large comments / temporarily remove text
Message-ID: <38438@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 18 Oct 90 16:47:06 GMT
References: <1990Oct17.090826.10399@cs.umn.edu> <1990Oct18.013624.27962@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Organization: Center for Relativity, University of Texas
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In article <1990Oct17.090826.10399@cs.umn.edu> irani@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
(Erach Irani) writes: 
>Hi,
>	How do I get large comments / blanked out text 3-20 pages long.
>It's ok with UNIX in the department but I'm using a 386 P.C with sbtex
>or emtex and it runs out of memory on the comment. blatex is too slow on
>my box.

I'm not sure if this will work for such large comments, but TeXsis uses
the following:

%--------------------------------------------------*
% COMMENTS.
%
% Use \comment to turn most anything into nothing (must have balanced {}!).
% Usage:
%   \comment/* <text to be ignored> */      % the /* and */ are required!

\long\def\comment#1/*#2*/{\endcomment}  % lets you do stuff afterwards
\def\endcomment{\relax}                 % but for now just do nothing 



-- 
Eric Myers		"Frankie say '\relax'"

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