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From: sjb@cs.toronto.edu (Stephen Bellantoni)
Subject: Two really hard LaTeX puzzles.
Message-ID: <90Oct31.160701edt.1012@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Keywords: LaTeX, 2up, postscript, comments
Reply-To: sjb@theory.utoronto.ca
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Distribution: comp
Date: 31 Oct 90 21:07:17 GMT
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Here are two puzzles for the hard core LaTeXer. 
Please reply through e-mail.

(1) How can you define an environment for comments? It is 
    easy to define \def\comment#1{}, but I would prefer to
    use \begin{comment}...\end{comment}.  You would think
    that some catcoding would do it, but I couldn't find the
    right sequence.

(2) How can you print a LaTeX document "2-up", that is half-size
    and sideways so that you get two normal pages on a single 
    side of paper. I suspect you could emit postscript code to do
    this from inside of Latex, but I don't know what codes or how
    to emit them. Note: twocolumn with weird margins is NOT what
    I'm after.

Happy hacking! Please reply through e-mail & I will summarize. 

stephen