[XeTeX] Commenting out

[John Was]

Thanks.  I think it compiles in plain TeX (at least I've often used 
something
analogous to that and I've never knowingly used \long\def !) - I don't know 
LaTeX and its particular requirements.


John



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Apostolos Syropoulos" <asyropoulos at yahoo.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:07 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Commenting out


> >Or you could create a control sequence:
>>\def\noprint#1{\relax}
>>Then  \noprint{Some text, which can go on for ages}
>>will just not do anything.
> I think there is a small problem here. Try
>
> \noprint{Some text, which can \par go on for ages}
>
> This will not compile. But if you define the command as follows
>
> \long\def\noprint#1{\relax}
>
> there is no problem.
>
> A.S.
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