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Asking the Translator to Ignore Commands

Commands that should be ignored may be specified in the `.latex2html-init` file as input to the `&ignore_commands` subroutine. Each command which is to be ignored should be on a separate line followed by compulsory or optional argument markers separated by `#`'s e.g.46:

> `<cmd_name1> # {} # [] # {} # [] ...`
> `<cmd_name2> #` `«pattern»``# [] ...`

`{}`'s mark compulsory arguments and `[]`'s optional ones, while `«pattern»` denotes matching everything up to the indicated string-pattern, given literally (e.g. `\\endarray`); spaces are ignored. Special characters such as `$`, `&`, `\` itself and perhaps some others, need to be ``escaped'' with a preceding `\`.

Some commands may have arguments which should be left as text even though the command should be ignored (e.g. `\hbox`, `\center`, etc.). In these cases arguments should be left unspecified. Here is an example of how this mechanism may be used:

    &ignore_commands( <<_IGNORED_CMDS_);
    documentstyle # [] # {}
    linebreak # []
    mbox
    <add your commands here>
    _IGNORED_CMDS_