<--- On Mar 28, Taco Hoekwater wrote --->
andrea valle wrote:
Dear all, It's a bit tiring to start many lines always with %. Is it possibile to have multiple line comments like in C
\* comments here *\
\iffalse comments here \fi
Be careful with this. From the UK tex FAQ The simple \newcommand{\gobble}[1]{} and \iffalse ... \fi aren't really satisfactory (as a general solution) for comments, since the matter being skipped is nevertheless scanned by TeX, not always as you would expect. The scanning imposes restrictions on what you're allowed to skip; this may not be a problem in today's job, but could return to bite you tomorrow. For an example of surprises that may come to bite you, consider the following example (derived from real user experience): \iffalse % ignoring this bit consider what happens if we use \verb|\iftrue| -- a surprise \fi The \iftrue is spotted by TeX as it scans, ignoring the \verb command; so the \iffalse isn't terminated by the following \fi. Also, \gobble is pretty inefficient at consuming anything non-trivial, since all the matter to be skipped is copied to the argument stack before being ignored. Aditya