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`@quotation'
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  The text of a quotation is processed normally except that:

   * the margins are closer to the center of the page, so the whole of
     the quotation is indented;

   * the first lines of paragraphs are indented no more than other
     lines;

   * in the printed output, interparagraph spacing is reduced.

     This is an example of text written between an `@quotation' command
     and an `@end quotation' command.  An `@quotation' command is most
     often used to indicate text that is excerpted from another (real
     or hypothetical) printed work.

  Write an `@quotation' command as text on a line by itself.  This line
will disappear from the output.  Mark the end of the quotation with a
line beginning with and containing only `@end quotation'.  The `@end
quotation' line will likewise disappear from the output.  Thus, the
following,

     @quotation
     This is
     a foo.
     @end quotation

produces

     This is a foo.