Conditionals

Published on 30 Nov 2007
Tags #HTML #LaTeX #PDF

Conditionals allow you to restrict chunks of your tex source to be processed in a certain context only:

Special comments

  %begin{latexonly}
  % ...
  %end{latexonly}

HTML package

  \begin{htmlonly}
  % ...
  \end{htmlonly}
  % ...
  \begin{latexonly}
  % ...
  \end{latexonly}

TeX macros

  % ...
  \newif\ifpdf
  \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
    \pdffalse
  \else
    \pdfoutput=1
    \pdftrue
  \fi
  % ...
  \ifpdf
  % ...
  \fi

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