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21.11 '@smallbook': Printing "Small" Books
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By default, TeX typesets pages for printing in an 8.5 by 11 inch format.
However, you can direct TeX to typeset a document in a 7 by 9.25 inch
format that is suitable for bound books by inserting the following
command on a line by itself at the beginning of the Texinfo file, before
the title page:

     @smallbook

(Since many books are about 7 by 9.25 inches, this command might better
have been called the '@regularbooksize' command, but it came to be
called the '@smallbook' command by comparison to the 8.5 by 11 inch
format.)

  If you write the '@smallbook' command between the start-of-header and
end-of-header lines, the Texinfo mode TeX region formatting command,
'texinfo-tex-region', will format the region in "small" book size (Note:
Start of Header).

  *Note @small...::, for information about commands that make it easier
to produce examples for a smaller manual.

  Note: Format with texi2dvi, and Note: Preparing for TeX, for other
ways to format with '@smallbook' that do not require changing the source
file.