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  2. From: cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
  4. Subject: Re: HELP on LaTeX macro
  5. Keywords: count0 pageno
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.190236.905@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
  7. Date: 21 Nov 92 19:02:36 GMT
  8. References: <1992Nov19.112431.7525@inesc.pt> <1992Nov20.195547.9694@mail.cornell.edu>
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  14. In article <1992Nov20.195547.9694@mail.cornell.edu>, tsl1@cornell.edu
  15. (Tim Larkin) writes:
  16. |>
  17. |> Why not use the \loop command? See page 217 of the TeXBook. For your 
  18. |> example,
  19. |> 
  20. |> \def\manylines#1{%
  21. |>     \count0=#1%
  22. |>     \loop\ifnum\count0>0 \oneline\advance\count0 by -1\repeat
  23. |> }
  24.  
  25. There are certain disadvantages to using \count0, though :-)
  26.  
  27. Use \count255 or a \newcount-allocated counter.
  28.  
  29. Chris Thompson
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