How to \enddocument inside an environment

Question

I have a document of the form

\begin{document}
some text
\begin{myenv}
....
\end{myenv}
some other stuff
\end\document

I would like to set a boolean \newif\if@test in the header to control the output, such that if I set \@testtrue, the document would end just after \end{myenv} and not display some other stuff. My attempt is to put

\if@test \enddocument

at the end of the declaration of myenv. But this does not work, LaTeX complains that begin{myenv} is ended by \enddocument ...

How could I do that?

I think that if it is an environment that is nested this is going to be a problem. — Peter Grill, Jan 18 '12 at 19:08
Related but not a duplicate: Calling \end{document} in a macro — Martin Scharrer, Jan 18 '12 at 19:38

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '12 at 19:17

11

A simple solution is to use \stop to stop further compilation.

\documentclass{article}
\newenvironment{myenv}{}{\stop}
\begin{document}
some text
\begin{myenv}
Some other text
\end{myenv}
some other stuff
\end{document}

This is a TeX command redefined in LaTeX ltmiscen.dtx.

answered Jan 18 '12 at 19:17

yannisl

117,160

Indeed, \stop is the way to go here. For a further example see Ulrike's answer to one of my questions which introduced me to this nice macro. – Martin Scharrer Jan 18 '12 at 19:43
this is definitly the simple solution i was looking for ! – Loic Rosnay Jan 18 '12 at 19:47

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '12 at 19:12

3

To comment some phrases of your document I recommend the package comment.

On the other hand I recommend the package etoolbox with the hook \AfterEndEnvironment.

Here an example:

\documentclass{article}%
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newbool{myenv:enddocument}
\booltrue{myenv:enddocument}
\AfterEndEnvironment{myenv}{%
\ifbool{myenv:enddocument}%
  {\def\tempa{\end{document}}}%
  {\let\tempa\relax}%
  \tempa%
}
\newenvironment{myenv}%
{\par\noindent}%
{\par}
\begin{document}

some text
\begin{myenv}
....
\end{myenv}
some other stuff
\end{document}

answered Jan 18 '12 at 19:12

Marco Daniel

95,681

to comment part of my text, i usually use either a command \comm defined by {} or an environment defined with \NewEnviron{comm}{}. Thanks for the interesting \AfterEndEnvironment – Loic Rosnay Jan 18 '12 at 19:52
1

\ifbool{myenv:enddocument}{\end{document}}{} – Ahmed Musa Jan 18 '12 at 21:13

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

2

The following works due to the minimal grouping within your environment:

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\documentclass{article}
\newenvironment{myenv}{Start}{Finish}% \begin{myenv}...\end{myenv}
\makeatletter
\newif\if@test% New condition \@test<true><false>
\@testtrue% \@testfalse
\g@addto@macro{\myenv}
  {\if@test\g@addto@macro{\endmyenv}{\aftergroup\enddocument}\fi}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
some text
\begin{myenv}
   ...
\end{myenv}
some other stuff
\end{document}

\g@addto@macro works similar to etoolbox's \appto command. \aftergroup waits for the current group to finish before executing \enddocument.

edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

Community

1

answered Jan 18 '12 at 19:18

Werner

603,163

yes, but i don'T want to have the boolean test in myenv, but in the header. – Loic Rosnay Jan 18 '12 at 19:53
@nicolasroy: I've updated my answer to accommodate for this, adding the test condition to the start of the environment \myenv. – Werner Jan 18 '12 at 19:57

How to \enddocument inside an environment

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