[texhax] question about newlines

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> I don't have much experience writing advanced macros, but
> I always wanted to write a macro that has a newline as delimiter.
> So I could say something like
> 
> ----
> \mymacro argument
> 
> rest of the document
> ---
> 
> Do you know any way of doing this?

Try this

\def\mymacro#1\par{blah blah #1 blah blah}

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