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Printing "Small" Books
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  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:

     @smallbook

(Since many books are about 7 by 9.25 inches, this command might better
have been called the `@regularbooksize' command, but it came to be
called the `@smallbook' command by comparison to the 8.5 by 11 inch
format.)

  If you write the `@smallbook' command between the start-of-header and
end-of-header lines, the Texinfo mode TeX region formatting command,
`texinfo-tex-region', will format the region in "small" book size
(Note: Start of Header).

  Note: small, for information about commands that make it easier to
produce examples for a smaller manual.

  Note: Format with texi2dvi, and Note: Preparing for TeX,
 for other ways to format with `@smallbook' that do not require
changing the source file.