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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
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Subject: Re: How do I comment-out a block of TeX
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Date: 24 Jan 91 17:27:48 GMT
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In-Reply-To: siemsen@sol.usc.edu's message of 24 Jan 91 00:29:15 GMT

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.

Many solutions have already been suggested, but let me just point out
that the verbatim.sty file by Rainer Sch\"opf also contains a comment
environment.  This file is distributed with the Mittelbach-Sch\"opf
font selection scheme and amslatex, I believe.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY