comment package - \excludecomment{} gives error

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\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[hmargin=2.5cm,vmargin=3.0cm]{geometry}
\linespread{1.3}    % use 1.5 line spacing
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{wrapfig}    % puts the figure wrapped

\newif\ifshow
%\showtrue
\showfalse

\usepackage{version}
\ifshow
  \includeversion{wrapfigure}
\else
  \excludeversion{wrapfigure}
\fi

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

        \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\textwidth}
            \begin{center}
                \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{latex.png}
            \end{center}
            \caption{Caption}
            \label{fig:00}
        \end{wrapfigure}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

Package comment

The environment is an outer shell with its contents is set or is not depending on \excludeversion or \includeversion. Also the environment markers have to be on a line of their own. \excludeversion and \includeversion do not work well with existing environments. \endwrapfigure causes the error messages. Thus an additional wrapper environment is needed:

\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[hmargin=2.5cm,vmargin=3.0cm]{geometry}
\linespread{1.3}    % use 1.5 line spacing
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{wrapfig}    % puts the figure wrapped

\newif\ifshow
\showtrue
%\showfalse

\usepackage{comment}
\ifshow
  \includecomment{wrap}
\else
  \excludecomment{wrap}
\fi

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\begin{wrap}
        \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\textwidth}
            \begin{center}
                \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{latex.png}
            \end{center}
            \caption{Caption}
            \label{fig:00}   
        \end{wrapfigure}  
\end{wrap}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
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  • gbc921
    gbc921 over 1 year

    I'm trying to generate a pdf file without the pictures for draft revision, and as seen here and here the \excludecomment{} is not working for me.

    Here is my error:

    line 31: Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup \end{wrapfigure}
    line 31: Undefined control sequence \end{wrapfigure}
    line 31: Missing number, treated as zero \end{wrapfigure}
    line 31: Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted) \end{wrapfigure}
    

    given by my test code:

    \documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
    \usepackage[hmargin=2.5cm,vmargin=3.0cm]{geometry}
    \linespread{1.3}    % use 1.5 line spacing
    \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
    \usepackage{wrapfig}    % puts the figure wrapped
    
    \newif\ifshow
    %\showtrue
    \showfalse
    
    
    \usepackage{comment}
    %\excludecomment{itemize}
    \ifshow
    \includecomment{wrapfigure}
    \else
    \excludecomment{wrapfigure}
    \fi
    \excludecomment{wrapfigure}
    
    
    \begin{document}
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc tempus convallis euismod. Vestibulum aliquet lacus at diam laoreet a scelerisque purus posuere.   
    
        \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\textwidth}
                \begin{center}
                    \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{latex.png}
                \end{center}
                \caption{Caption}
                \label{fig:00}
        \end{wrapfigure}
    \end{document}
    

    Neither using the \removecomment{} or the if sentence works.

    • Corentin
      Corentin about 11 years
      What about the [draft] option for the graphicx package?
    • Corentin
      Corentin about 11 years
    • gbc921
      gbc921 about 11 years
      Thanks man! I've used your approach as is really easy to remove the pictures.
  • gbc921
    gbc921 about 11 years
    Thanks for the answer! The both method worked perfectly! I will mark as solved, however I will follow the comment from @Coretin and use the [draft] (or [demo]) option from grapicx because is simpler, does the job of removing the picture (or the big size of the PDF) and I do not need to edit the code (at least for the comment package). (I should had searched with other terms on Google before getting lost on comment pkg. :D)