Re: feature request

["Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

Dear Aditya, Wolfgang,

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:11:55 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster  
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

> When you use \gobbleoneargument you can omit the output in the log.
:
> To avoid this I added \removeunwantedspaces to my \hide command.

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:28:24 -0700, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>  
wrote:

> Untested, but I am pretty sure
>
> \message{\iffalse}
>
> will fail. Basically, everything inside \message (or the \hide macro by
> Wolfgang) needs to be processed by TeX, so strictly speaking it is not
> equivalent to a comment.
>
> See the TeX FAQ  
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=conditional
> for more details.
>
> The most robust solution is to use buffers, but that will not work if the
> buffer is part of a macro argument.
>
> The luatex solution (which is again not perfect) that I posted removes
> everything inside the comment before it is seeen by TeX.

Thank you both for your insightful answers. I appreciate it!

Best wishes
Idris
-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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