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Block Enclosing Commands
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  Here are commands for quotations and examples, explained further in
the following sections:

`@quotation'
     Indicate text that is quoted. The text is filled, indented, and
     printed in a roman font by default.

`@example'
     Illustrate code, commands, and the like. The text is printed in a
     fixed-width font, and indented but not filled.

`@verbatim'
     Mark a piece of text that is to be printed verbatim; no character
     substitutions are made and all commands are ignored, until the next
     `@end verbatim'.  The text is printed in a fixed-width font, and
     not indented or filled.  Extra spaces and blank lines are
     significant, and tabs are expanded.

`@smallexample'
     Same as `@example', except that in TeX this command typesets text
     in a smaller font.

`@lisp'
     Like `@example', but specifically for illustrating Lisp code. The
     text is printed in a fixed-width font, and indented but not filled.

`@smalllisp'
     Is to `@lisp' as `@smallexample' is to `@example'.

`@display'
     Display illustrative text.  The text is indented but not filled,
     and no font is selected (so, by default, the font is roman).

`@smalldisplay'
     Is to `@display' as `@smallexample' is to `@example'.

`@format'
     Like `@display' (the text is not filled and no font is selected),
     but the text is not indented.

`@smallformat'
     Is to `@format' as `@smallexample' is to `@example'.

  The `@exdent' command is used within the above constructs to undo the
indentation of a line.

  The `@flushleft' and `@flushright' commands are used to line up the
left or right margins of unfilled text.

  The `@noindent' command may be used after one of the above constructs
to prevent the following text from being indented as a new paragraph.

  You can use the `@cartouche' command within one of the above
constructs to highlight the example or quotation by drawing a box with
rounded corners around it.  *Note Drawing Cartouches Around Examples:
cartouche.