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<span id="g_t_0040smallbook_003a-Printing-_0060_0060Small_0027_0027-Books"></span><h3 class="section">19.11 <code>@smallbook</code>: Printing “Small” Books</h3>
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<p>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:
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<p>(Since many books are about 7 by 9.25 inches, this command might better
have been called the <code>@regularbooksize</code> command, but it came to be
called the <code>@smallbook</code> command by comparison to the 8.5 by 11
inch format.)
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<p>If you write the <code>@smallbook</code> command between the
start-of-header and end-of-header lines, the Texinfo mode TeX
region formatting command, <code>texinfo-tex-region</code>, will format the
region in “small” book size (see <a href="Start-of-Header.html">Start of Header</a>).
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<p>See <a href="_0040small_2026.html"><code>@small…</code></a>, for information about commands that make
it easier to produce examples for a smaller manual.
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<p>See <a href="Format-with-texi2dvi.html">Format with <code>texi2dvi</code></a>, and <a href="Preparing-for-TeX.html">Preparing for TeX</a>,
for other ways to format with <code>@smallbook</code> that do not require
changing the source file.
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