comment.sty

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% Comment.sty   version 3.6, October 1999
%
% Purpose:
% selectively in/exclude pieces of text: the user can define new
% comment versions, and each is controlled separately.
% Special comments can be defined where the user specifies the
% action that is to be taken with each comment line.
%
% Author
%    Victor Eijkhout
%    Department of Computer Science
%    University of Tennessee
%    107 Ayres Hall
%    Knoxville TN 37996
%    USA
%
%    victor@eijkhout.net
%
% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
% modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
% as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
% of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
% 
% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
% GNU General Public License for more details.
%
% For a copy of the GNU General Public License, write to the 
% Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
% 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA,
% or find it on the net, for instance at
% http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
%
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% This style can be used with plain TeX or LaTeX, and probably
% most other packages too.
%
% Usage: all text included between
%    \comment ... \endcomment
% or \begin{comment} ... \end{comment}
% is discarded. 
%
% The opening and closing commands should appear on a line
% of their own. No starting spaces, nothing after it.
% This environment should work with arbitrary amounts
% of comment, and the comment can be arbitrary text.
%
% Other `comment' environments are defined by
% and are selected/deselected with
% \includecomment{versiona}
% \excludecoment{versionb}
%
% These environments are used as
% \versiona ... \endversiona
% or \begin{versiona} ... \end{versiona}
% with the opening and closing commands again on a line of 
% their own.
%
% LaTeX users note: for an included comment, the
% \begin and \end lines act as if they don't exist.
% In particular, they don't imply grouping, so assignments 
% &c are not local.
%
% Special comments are defined as
% \specialcomment{name}{before commands}{after commands}
% where the second and third arguments are executed before
% and after each comment block. You can use this for global
% formatting commands.
% To keep definitions &c local, you can include \begingroup
% in the `before commands' and \endgroup in the `after commands'.
% ex:
% \specialcomment{smalltt}
%     {\begingroup\ttfamily\footnotesize}{\endgroup}
% You do *not* have to do an additional
% \includecomment{smalltt}
% To remove 'smalltt' blocks, give \excludecomment{smalltt}
% after the definition.
%
% Processing comments can apply processing to each line.
% \processcomment{name}{each-line commands}%
%    {before commands}{after commands}
% By defining a control sequence 
% \def\Thiscomment##1{...} in the before commands the user can
% specify what is to be done with each comment line.
% BUG this does not work quite yet BUG
%
% Trick for short in/exclude macros (such as \maybe{this snippet}):
%\includecomment{cond}
%\newcommand{\maybe}[1]{}
%\begin{cond}
%\renewcommand{\maybe}[1]{#1}
%\end{cond}
%
% Basic approach of the implementation:
% to comment something out, scoop up  every line in verbatim mode
% as macro argument, then throw it away.
% For inclusions, in LaTeX the block is written out to
% a file \CommentCutFile (default "comment.cut"), which is
% then included.
% In plain TeX (and other formats) both the opening and
% closing comands are defined as noop.
%
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% Changes in version 3.1
% - updated author's address
% - cleaned up some code
% - trailing contents on \begin{env} line is always discarded
%  even if you've done \includecomment{env}
% - comments no longer define grouping!! you can even
%   \includecomment{env}
%   \begin{env}
%   \begin{itemize}
%   \end{env}
%  Isn't that something ...
% - included comments are written to file and input again.
% Changes in 3.2
% - \specialcomment brought up to date (thanks to Ivo Welch).
% Changes in 3.3
% - updated author's address again
% - parametrised \CommentCutFile
% Changes in 3.4
% - added GNU public license
% - added \processcomment, because Ivo's fix (above) brought an
%   inconsistency to light.
% Changes in 3.5
% - corrected typo in header.
% - changed author email
% - corrected \specialcomment yet again.
% - fixed excludecomment of an earlier defined environment.
% Changes in 3.6
% - The 'cut' file is now written more verbatim, using \meaning;
%   some people reported having trouble with ISO latin 1, or umlaute.sty.
% - removed some \newif statements.
%   Has this suddenly become \outer again?
%
% Known bugs:
% - excludecomment leads to one superfluous space
% - processcomment leads to a superfluous line break
%
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\def\makeinnocent#1{\catcode`#1=12 }
\def\csarg#1#2{\expandafter#1\csname#2\endcsname}
\def\latexname{lplain}\def\latexename{LaTeX2e}
\newwrite\CommentStream
\def\CommentCutFile{comment.cut}

\def\ProcessComment#1% start it all of
   {\begingroup
    \def\CurrentComment{#1}%
    \let\do\makeinnocent \dospecials 
    \makeinnocent\^^L% and whatever other special cases
    \endlinechar`\^^M \catcode`\^^M=12 \xComment}
%\def\ProcessCommentWithArg#1#2% to be used in \leveledcomment
%   {\begingroup
%    \def\CurrentComment{#1}%
%    \let\do\makeinnocent \dospecials 
%    \makeinnocent\^^L% and whatever other special cases
%    \endlinechar`\^^M \catcode`\^^M=12 \xComment}
{\catcode`\^^M=12 \endlinechar=-1 %
 \gdef\xComment#1^^M{%
    \expandafter\ProcessCommentLine}
 \gdef\ProcessCommentLine#1^^M{\def\test{#1}
      \csarg\ifx{End\CurrentComment Test}\test
          \edef\next{\noexpand\EndOfComment{\CurrentComment}}%
      \else \ThisComment{#1}\let\next\ProcessCommentLine
      \fi \next}
}

\def\CSstringmeaning#1{\expandafter\CSgobblearrow\meaning#1}
\def\CSstringcsnoescape#1{\expandafter\CSgobbleescape\string#1}
{\escapechar-1
\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\gdef
  \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\CSgobblearrow
    \expandafter\string\csname macro:->\endcsname{}
}
\def\CSgobbleescape#1{\ifnum`\\=`#1 \else #1\fi}
\def\WriteCommentLine#1{\def\CStmp{#1}%
    \immediate\write\CommentStream{\CSstringmeaning\CStmp}}

% 3.1 change: in LaTeX and LaTeX2e prevent grouping
\if 0%
\ifx\fmtname\latexename 
    0%
\else \ifx\fmtname\latexname 
          0%
      \else 
          1%
\fi   \fi
%%%%
%%%% definitions for LaTeX
%%%%
\def\AfterIncludedComment
   {\immediate\closeout\CommentStream
    \input{\CommentCutFile}\relax
    }%
\def\TossComment{\immediate\closeout\CommentStream}
\def\BeforeIncludedComment
   {\immediate\openout\CommentStream=\CommentCutFile
    \let\ThisComment\WriteCommentLine}
\def\includecomment
 #1{\message{Include comment '#1'}%
    \csarg\let{After#1Comment}\AfterIncludedComment
    \csarg\def{#1}{\BeforeIncludedComment
        \ProcessComment{#1}}%
    \CommentEndDef{#1}}
\long\def\specialcomment
 #1#2#3{\message{Special comment '#1'}%
    % note: \AfterIncludedComment does \input, so #2 goes here!
    \csarg\def{After#1Comment}{#2\AfterIncludedComment#3}%
    \csarg\def{#1}{\BeforeIncludedComment\relax
          \ProcessComment{#1}}%
    \CommentEndDef{#1}}
\long\def\processcomment
 #1#2#3#4{\message{Lines-Processing comment '#1'}%
    \csarg\def{After#1Comment}{#3\AfterIncludedComment#4}%
    \csarg\def{#1}{\BeforeIncludedComment#2\relax
          \ProcessComment{#1}}%
    \CommentEndDef{#1}}
\def\leveledcomment
 #1#2{\message{Include comment '#1' up to level '#2'}%
    %\csname #1IsLeveledCommenttrue\endcsname
    \csarg\let{After#1Comment}\AfterIncludedComment
    \csarg\def{#1}{\BeforeIncludedComment
        \ProcessCommentWithArg{#1}}%
    \CommentEndDef{#1}}
\else 
%%%%
%%%%plain TeX and other formats
%%%%
\def\includecomment
 #1{\message{Including comment '#1'}%
    \csarg\def{#1}{}%
    \csarg\def{end#1}{}}
\long\def\specialcomment
 #1#2#3{\message{Special comment '#1'}%
    \csarg\def{#1}{\def\ThisComment{}\def\AfterComment{#3}#2%
           \ProcessComment{#1}}%
    \CommentEndDef{#1}}
\fi

%%%%
%%%% general definition of skipped comment
%%%%
\def\excludecomment
 #1{\message{Excluding comment '#1'}%
    \csarg\def{#1}{\let\AfterComment\relax
           \def\ThisComment####1{}\ProcessComment{#1}}%
    \csarg\let{After#1Comment}\TossComment
    \CommentEndDef{#1}}

\if 0%
\ifx\fmtname\latexename 
    0%
\else \ifx\fmtname\latexname 
          0%
      \else 
          1%
\fi   \fi
% latex & latex2e:
\def\EndOfComment#1{\endgroup\end{#1}%
    \csname After#1Comment\endcsname}
\def\CommentEndDef#1{{\escapechar=-1\relax
    \csarg\xdef{End#1Test}{\string\\end\string\{#1\string\}}%
    }}
\else
% plain & other
\def\EndOfComment#1{\endgroup\AfterComment}
\def\CommentEndDef#1{{\escapechar=-1\relax
    \csarg\xdef{End#1Test}{\string\\end#1}%
    }}
\fi

\excludecomment{comment}

\endinput