[OS X TeX] help

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:58 PM, Ari Stern wrote:

> Yes, that's correct.  I probably could have been more clear -- the
> brackets and ellipses are not necessary.  All you need to do is put
> \iffalse before the block of text and \fi at the end of the block.


Howdy,

I find this a bit dangerous. If the code being commented out happens  
to ave an unbalanced \fi you'll have unintentional behavior. For  
ordinary text there shouldn't be a problem.

It is so easy to comment/uncomment multiple lines in TeXShop (and many  
other text editors that support (La)TeX) that I never use \iffalse... 
\fi any more. It is also much more obvious that the code is commented  
out if you use %... .

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)