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From: yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Gil)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: CPP is better than TeX--- version.sty: more questions?
Message-ID: <1991Jun9.171103.5756@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 9 Jun 91 17:11:03 GMT
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Hello there,

Another problem I have with the version.sty file is that

\includeversion{SpaceLimited}
\begin{SpaceLimited}
	\input{twocol}
\end{SpaceLimited}

includes the file twocol, but doesn't use the def's of page size from
this file.

Anyone out there cares to answer?

	Thanks 

		Yossi

PS
Now- If TeX was a ***decent*** programming language, this would
never have been a problem. Defenders of TeX claim that all its 
limitations  are due to the fact that it is a macro processor
etc.

but even my C pre-processor is smarter than that, and it is no 
problem for it to handle something like:

#ifdef SPACE_LIMITED
#include "twocol.tex"
#endif

and I am sure this would work to cure the  other bug I have mentioned
in an earlier posting in the usage of a version environment inside
\title{} command of latex.

maybe, I should run the pre-processor on my files before latex,
however Don knows what's good for me and he doesn't allow me
to run TeX from stdin, which makes my life in a script writing
even more difficult.