On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:37:36PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> In this example from Herbert's myStyles.inc:
> 
> Preamble
>   \usepackage{ntheorem}
>   \newtheorem{example}{Example}
>   \newcommand\myExample[1]{
>      \begin{example}\begin{list}{}{% 
>        \setlength{\rightmargin}{\leftmargin}% symmetric
>        \setlength{\partopsep}{0cm}
>        \item[]}
>      #1 
>      \end{list}
>      \end{example}
>      }
> EndPreamble
> 
> What are the percent signs for? Also, what is the #1?

  For comments, think about # for shell scripts. Also there are other rules
that relate how TeX deals with changing lines that are "softned" by the use
of the comment.

  #1 IIRC is the first argument of the command.
  
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
> 
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