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<span id="Quotations-and-Examples-1"></span><h2 class="chapter">8 Quotations and Examples</h2>
<p>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.
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<p>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 <code>@end</code> command that is also at the beginning of a line by
itself. For instance, you begin an example by writing
<code>@example</code> by itself at the beginning of a line and end the
example by writing <code>@end example</code> on a line by itself, at the
beginning of that line, and with only one space between the
<code>@end</code> and the <code>example</code>.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Block-Enclosing-Commands.html" accesskey="1">Block Enclosing Commands</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Different constructs for different purposes.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040quotation.html" accesskey="2"><code>@quotation</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Writing a quotation.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040indentedblock.html" accesskey="3"><code>@indentedblock</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Block of text indented on left.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040example.html" accesskey="4"><code>@example</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Writing an example in a fixed-width font.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040verbatim.html" accesskey="5"><code>@verbatim</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Writing a verbatim example.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040lisp.html" accesskey="6"><code>@lisp</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Illustrating Lisp code.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040display.html" accesskey="7"><code>@display</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Writing an example in the current font.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040format.html" accesskey="8"><code>@format</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Writing an example without narrowed margins.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040exdent.html" accesskey="9"><code>@exdent</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Undo indentation on a line.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040flushleft-_0040flushright.html"><code>@flushleft @flushright</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Pushing text flush left or flush right.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040raggedright.html"><code>@raggedright</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Avoiding justification on the right.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040noindent.html"><code>@noindent</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Preventing paragraph indentation.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040indent.html"><code>@indent</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Forcing paragraph indentation.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040cartouche.html"><code>@cartouche</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Drawing rounded rectangles around text.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="_0040small_2026.html"><code>@small…</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Examples in a smaller font.
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