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diff --git a/info/examples/tex-in-practice/printast.tip b/info/examples/tex-in-practice/printast.tip new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3ad5263963 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/examples/tex-in-practice/printast.tip @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +% This macro source file is from the four volume series +% "TeX in Practice" by Stephan von Bechtolsheim, published +% 1993 by Springer-Verlag, New York. +% Copyright 1993 Stephan von Bechtolsheim. +% No warranty or liability is assumed. +% This macro may be copied freely if no fees other than +% media cost or shipping charges are charged and as long +% as this copyright and the following source code itself +% is not changed. Please see the series for further information. +% +% Version: 1.0 +% Date: May 1, 1993 +% +% +% This source code is documented in 27.1.1, p. III-397. +% Original source in file "macros7.TEX", starting line 37. +\wlog{L: "printast.tip" ["macros7.TEX," l. 37, p. III-397]}% +% This file DOES belong to format "texip." +\newcount\AstCount +\def\PrintAsterisk #1{% + \AstCount = #1 + \ifnum\AstCount < 0 + \errmessage{\string\PrintAsterisk: negative counter.}% + \AstCount = 0 + \fi + \PrintAsteriskRec +} +\def\PrintAsteriskRec{% + *% + \advance\AstCount by -1 + \ifnum\AstCount = 0 + \let\next = \relax + \else + \let\next = \PrintAsteriskRec + \fi + \next +} |