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: Use different constructs for different purposes.
• quotation: How to write a quotation.
• example: How to write an example in a fixed-width font.
• noindent: How to prevent paragraph indentation.
• Lisp Example: How to illustrate Lisp code.
• smallexample & smalllisp: Forms for the @smallbook option.
• display: How to write an example in the current font.
• format: How to write an example that does not narrow the margins.
• exdent: How to undo the indentation of a line.
• flushleft & flushright: How to push text flushleft or flushright.
• cartouche: How to draw cartouches around examples.

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