The macro NOEXPAND is one of the ways in which text can be sent to the final output file without being expanded by Yodl (the other methods are the CHAR macro, see section ??, and the NOTRANS macro, see section ??). The macro NOEXPAND takes one parameter list, the text in question. Whatever occurs in the argument is not subject to parsing or expansion by Yodl, but is simply copied to the output file (except for CHAR macros in the argument, which are expanded). The contents of the parameter list are subject to character table translations, using the currently active table (see section ??). E.g., let's assume that you need to write in your document the following text:
INCLUDEFILE(something or the other)
IFDEF(onething) (..) (....)
NOEXPAND(whatever)

The way to accomplish this is by prefixing the text by NOEXPAND followed by an open parenthesis, and by postfixing it by a closing parenthesis. Otherwise, the text would be expanded by Yodl while processing it (and would lead to syntax errors, since the text isn't correct in the sence of the Yodl language).

For this macro, keep the following caveats in mind:


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