Opps. Quoted you the material you already quoted me. \bfseries is explained
under Fonts->Styles->Font Selection
On Monday 30 July 2001 11:04 am, you wrote:
> % makes a comment.
>
> Diff between \bf and \bfseries:
> \bf 'toggles' bold, until such time as you issue, say, \rm.
> \bfseries scopes over bracketed text only.
>
> Try http://www.astro.ku.dk/help/LaTeX/ltx-2.html for a good list of
> commands.
>
> On Monday 30 July 2001 10:18 am, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Herbert Voss wrote:
> > > \renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
> > > {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
> > > {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
> > > {\normalfont\Large\bfseries\uppercase}%
> > > }
> >
> > Thank you! Extending your idea into
> > \renewcommand\section{
> > \ifx \aftercontents \undefined%
> > { }
> > \else
> > \pagebreak
> > \fi
> > \@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
> > {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
> > {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
> > {\normalfont\centering\large\bfseries\uppercase}%
> > }
> >
> > and putting
> > \newcommand{\aftercontents}{true}
> > after TOC, I get exactly what I want: both pagebreak and uppercase for
> > topmost section headers, neither for subsection headers (and not an empty
> > page before TOC)
> >
> > btw: is there a LaTeX construct to comment several lines, something like
> > /* ... */ or #if 0 ... #endif in C? (If there's online reference, I'd be
> > happy for just an URL/pathname)
