[comp.text.tex] Two really hard LaTeX puzzles.

sjb@cs.toronto.edu (Stephen Bellantoni) (11/01/90)

Here are two puzzles for the hard core LaTeXer. 
Please reply through e-mail.

(1) How can you define an environment for comments? It is 
    easy to define \def\comment#1{}, but I would prefer to
    use \begin{comment}...\end{comment}.  You would think
    that some catcoding would do it, but I couldn't find the
    right sequence.

(2) How can you print a LaTeX document "2-up", that is half-size
    and sideways so that you get two normal pages on a single 
    side of paper. I suspect you could emit postscript code to do
    this from inside of Latex, but I don't know what codes or how
    to emit them. Note: twocolumn with weird margins is NOT what
    I'm after.

Happy hacking! Please reply through e-mail & I will summarize. 

stephen