General ⇒ /newcommand, how to make it invisible

[Faboom]

Hello,
currently im writing my masters, and to structure the thesis Im writing small summaries above my paragraphs.
Throughout the document creation they shall be visible, but afterwards id like to make them vanish.

For that matter i created a new command:

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\newcommand{\pSum }[1]{
\textbf{#1} \newline
}

My question: is there a command that makes the arguments invisble?
or better: defines the arguments as comments (%)?

cheers!

[gmedina]

If I understood your question, then one possibility is to use a switch and an ifthen construct, as the following example suggests:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifthen}

\newcommand{\mycomment}[1]{\textbf{#1}}
\newcommand{\switch}[1]{%
  \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{0}}{\renewcommand{\mycomment}[1]{}}{}}
\switch{1}

\begin{document}

\mycomment{First comment}

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

\mycomment{Second comment}

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

\mycomment{Third comment}

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 
\end{document}

This is the idea: the \mycomment command takes one argument and prints it in boldface type.
I also defined a \switch command. If this switch is set to zero (0) then, mycomment will be redefined and will do nothing. On the other hand, if you set the argument of the switch command to one (1), then \mycomment will act as expected.

In the example code I posted, if you change

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\switch{1}

to

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\switch{0}

then all the comments (introduced with the \mycomment command) will "vanish."