On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> wrote:
> On 2013-08-10, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I need your help. Could you please point me to the best web > > resources I'd need in order to understand LaTeX's "if" statement? > > The "raw" if statement is provided by TeX (not LaTeX) and therefore > has a different "look and feel" as well as philosophy and working. > Read about it in the excellent "TEX BY TOPIC, A TEXNICIAN’S REFERENCE" > from VICTOR EIJKHOUT. > http://www.eijkhout.net/texbytopic/texbytopic.html > > For a more LaTeX-like layer, have a look at the ifthenelse package > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ifthen, well documented, try `texdoc ifthen`. > > Günter > Thanks Günter, I decided to use TeX's ifx statement. It sux that there's no elsif, but it's reasonably useable, and if you need complex logic you can do it by flipping flags. I just downloaded the book you suggested. Personally, I like TeX more than LaTeX for much the same reasons I like C better than C++. So this book will be very helpful for me. I already have a fairly good idea *how to use* TeX, this book gives me the "whys". Thanks for the great suggestion. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
