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10 Quotations and Examples
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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 the output.

  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, and with only one space
between the '@end' and the 'example'.

Block Enclosing Commands

Different constructs for different purposes.

@quotation

Writing a quotation.

@indentedblock

Block of text indented on left.

@example

Writing an example in a fixed-width font.

@verbatim

Writing a verbatim example.

@verbatiminclude

Including a file verbatim.

@lisp

Illustrating Lisp code.

@small...

Examples in a smaller font.

@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.

@raggedright

Avoiding justification on the right.

@noindent

Preventing paragraph indentation.

@indent

Forcing paragraph indentation.

@cartouche

Drawing rounded rectangles around text.