[comp.text.tex] Summary: large comments in latex

irani@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Erach Irani) (10/18/90)

This approach seems best
\iffalse
 % all the text to ignore temporarily
\fi
and worked beautifully.

Thanks to everybody who replied.

	- erach


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levy@carrot.princeton.edu (Silvio Levy) (10/18/90)

irani@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Erach Irani) writes:

>This approach seems best
>\iffalse
> % all the text to ignore temporarily
>\fi
>and worked beautifully.

You were lucky.  If you had
\iffalse
blah blah \verb+\fi+ blah blah
\fi
or any other conditional in your "comment" you would have been screwed.

Use the comment environment that someone posted.  It's much more robust.

Silvio Levy