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From: ken-w@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (WAKITA Ken)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How do I comment-out a block of TeX
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Date: 24 Jan 91 02:08:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: siemsen@sol.usc.edu's message of 24 Jan 91 09:29:15 JST

In article <29555@usc> siemsen@sol.usc.edu (Pete Siemsen) writes:

 > Is there some way to comment out a block of TeX code?  Yes, I can
 > insert a percent sign at the front of every line, but I want something
 > simpler, like C's "#if 0" and "#endif" preprocessor directives.  I
 > tried \ifnum0>1 ... \fi, but TeX barfed with "missing \fi" after 2000
 > or so lines.

Yes.  Try the following macro.

\newcommand\comment[1]{}

\comment{
The text you want to comment out.
}

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WAKITA Ken (ken-w@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)		      Masuda Group.,
						Dept. of Info. Sci.,
						     Univ. of Tokyo.