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UKTeX Digest    Friday, 26 Aug 1994    Volume 94 : Issue 32

Today's Topics:
                       Problems with AMS-Latex
                     Re: Problems with AMS-Latex
                     Re: Problems with AMS-Latex
                            psboxit macros
         EuroTeX '94; only two weeks remain for registration


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Date:    Fri, 19 Aug 1994 23:13:54 -0000
From:    pbrett@tamara.demon.co.uk (Paul Brett)
Subject: Problems with AMS-Latex

This is probably a daft question (I'm still new at LaTex), but here goes:

I am running AMS-Latex, and wish to mark sections of a document only to
be printed in the draft versions.  I had therefore placed the following
environment definitions:

\newenvironment{Draft}{ \begin{quotation} \em}{ \end{quotation} }
%\newenvironment{Draft}{ \begin{comment} }{ \end{comment} }

Then any sections which should only be printed in the draft could be
marked by \begin{Draft} ... \end{Draft}.

However, when I switch to 'final copy' mode (by moving the comment), I 
get an error message:

     Runaway argument?
     ! File ended while scanning use of \next.
     <inserted text> 
                     \par 
     ...
     l.34 \input{p6}
     
Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?
                                   
- --
Paul Brett                                  EMail : pbrett@tamara.demon.co.uk
London, UK                                  Voice : 081 810 7587
                                            PGP2.6 key available

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Date:    19 Aug 1994 23:59:33 +0000
From:    rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Subject: Re: Problems with AMS-Latex

In article <777366191snx@tamara.demon.co.uk>,
Paul Brett <pbrett@tamara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>This is probably a daft question (I'm still new at LaTex), but here goes:
>
>I am running AMS-Latex, and wish to mark sections of a document only to
>be printed in the draft versions.  I had therefore placed the following
>environment definitions:
>
>\newenvironment{Draft}{ \begin{quotation} \em}{ \end{quotation} }
>%\newenvironment{Draft}{ \begin{comment} }{ \end{comment} }
>
>Then any sections which should only be printed in the draft could be
>marked by \begin{Draft} ... \end{Draft}.
>
>However, when I switch to 'final copy' mode (by moving the comment), I 
>get an error message:
>
>     Runaway argument?
>     ! File ended while scanning use of \next.
>[...]

I don't use AMSLaTeX, and have never examined its comment environment,
but the chances are that it's a verbatim-type thing.  This means, in
effect, that you're putting a verbatim environment in the argument of
a macro (it's not as simple as that, but the effect is the same); TeX
never finds the \end{comment} and ends up trying to gobble every last
bit of your file as comment.

Having told you what's wrong, I'm afraid I can't offer an alternative.
You'll likely need some internals sort of command, and (as I said) I
don't know AMSLaTeX.
- --
Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

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Date:    Sat, 20 Aug 1994 10:17:57 -0000
From:    pbrett@tamara.demon.co.uk (Paul Brett)
Subject: Re: Problems with AMS-Latex

Thanks for all your help.  The final solution I found was simply to use
one of the following lines:

%\newenvironment{Draft}{ \begin{quotation} \em}{ \end{quotation} }
\let\Draft=\comment \let\endDraft=\endcomment

Paul Brett

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Date:    Fri, 26 Aug 1994 08:20:23 -0000
From:    joop@entropic.demon.co.uk (Joop Jansen)
Subject: psboxit macros

Hello,

I read in the LaTeX companion that there should exist a macro package
psboxit which allows you to print text on a grey background. I have not been
able to find it however. Could anyone tell where it is?

Best regards Joop Jansen
- -- 
Entropic Research Laboratories, Inc
Sheraton House
Castle Park
Cambridge CB3 0AX, UK
E-mail: joop@entropic.com
Tel: +44-223-302651
Fax: +44-223-324560

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Date:    Tue, 23 Aug 1994 11:40:07 -0000
From:    CHAA006@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk
Subject: EuroTeX '94; only two weeks remain for registration


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