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Quotations and Examples

Quotations and examples are blocks of text consisting of one or more whole paragraphs that are set off from the bulk of the text and treated differently. They are usually indented.

In Texinfo, you always begin a quotation or example by writing an @-command at the beginning of a line by itself, and end it by writing an @end command that is also at the beginning of a line by itself. For instance, you begin an example by writing @example by itself at the beginning of a line and end the example by writing @end example on a line by itself, at the beginning of that line.

• Block Enclosing Commands: Different constructs for different purposes.
• quotation: Writing a quotation.
• example: Writing an example in a fixed-width font.
• verbatim: Writing a verbatim example.
• verbatiminclude: Including a file verbatim.
• lisp: Illustrating Lisp code.
• small: Forms for @smallbook.
• display: Writing an example in the current font.
• format: Writing an example without narrowed margins.
• exdent: Undo indentation on a line.
• flushleft & flushright: Pushing text flush left or flush right.
• noindent: Preventing paragraph indentation.
• cartouche: Drawing rounded rectangles around examples.