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<span id="g_t_0040verbatim_003a-Literal-Text"></span><h3 class="section">8.5 <code>@verbatim</code>: Literal Text</h3>
<span id="verbatim"></span><span id="index-verbatim"></span>
<span id="index-Verbatim-environment"></span>
<p>Use the <code>@verbatim</code> environment for printing of text that may
contain special characters or commands that should not be interpreted,
such as computer input or output (<code>@example</code> interprets its text
as regular Texinfo commands). This is especially useful for including automatically
generated files in a Texinfo manual.
</p>
<p>In general, the output will be just the same as the input. No
character substitutions are made, e.g., all spaces and blank lines are
significant, including tabs. In the printed manual, the text is
typeset in a fixed-width font, and not indented or filled.
</p>
<p>Write a <code>@verbatim</code> command at the beginning of a line by
itself. This line will disappear from the output. Mark the end of
the verbatim block with an <code>@end verbatim</code> command, also written
at the beginning of a line by itself. The <code>@end verbatim</code> will
also disappear from the output.
</p>
<p>For example:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example"><tt>@verbatim</tt>
</pre><pre class="example"><tt>{</tt>
</pre><pre class="example"><span class="key">TAB</span><tt>@command with strange characters: @'e</tt>
</pre><pre class="example"><tt>expand<span class="key">TAB</span>me</tt>
</pre><pre class="example"><tt>}</tt>
</pre><pre class="example"><tt>@end verbatim</tt>
</pre></div>
<p>This produces:
</p>
<pre class="verbatim">{
@command with strange characters: @'e
expand me
}
</pre>
<p>Since the lines containing <code>@verbatim</code> and <code>@end verbatim</code>
produce no output, typically you should put a blank line before the
<code>@verbatim</code> and another blank line after the <code>@end
verbatim</code>. Blank lines between the beginning <code>@verbatim</code> and
the ending <code>@end verbatim</code> will appear in the output.
</p>
<span id="index-Verbatim_002c-small"></span>
<span id="index-Small-verbatim"></span>
<p>You can get a “small” verbatim by enclosing the <code>@verbatim</code> in
an <code>@smallformat</code> environment, as shown here:
</p>
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<pre class="example"><tt>@smallformat</tt>
</pre><pre class="example"><tt>@verbatim</tt>
</pre><pre class="example"><tt>... still verbatim, but in a smaller font ...</tt>
</pre><pre class="example"><tt>@end verbatim</tt>
</pre><pre class="example"><tt>@end smallformat</tt>
</pre></div>
<p>Finally, a word of warning: it is not reliable to use
<code>@verbatim</code> inside other Texinfo constructs.
</p>
<p>See also <a href="_0040verbatiminclude.html"><code>@verbatiminclude</code></a>.
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