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`@verbatim': Literal Text
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  Use the `@verbatim' environment for printing of text that may contain
special characters or commands that should not be interpreted, such as
computer input or output (`@example' interprets its text as regular
Texinfo commands).  This is especially useful for including
automatically generated output in a Texinfo manual.  Here is an example;
the output you see is just the same as the input, with a line
`@verbatim' before and a line `@end verbatim' after.


This is an example of text written in a @verbatim
block.  No character substitutions are made all commands
are ignored, until the next 'end verbatim' command.

In the printed manual, the text is typeset in a
fixed-width font, and not indented or filled.  All
spaces and blank lines are significant, including tabs.

  Write a `@verbatim' command at the beginning of a line by itself.
This line will disappear from the output.  Mark the end of the verbatim
block with a `@end verbatim' command, also written at the beginning of
a line by itself.  The `@end verbatim' will also disappear from the
output.

  For example:

@verbatim
{
<tab>@command with strange characters: @'e
expand<tab>me
}
@end verbatim

produces


{
	@command with strange characters: @'e 
expand	me
}

  Since the lines containing `@verbatim' and `@end verbatim' will
disappear, tyically you should put a blank line before the `@verbatim'
and another blank line after the `@end verbatim'.  Blank lines between
the beginning `@verbatim' and the ending `@end verbatim' will appear in
the output.)