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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>@print (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="@print (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="@print (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Glyphs-for-Programming.html" rel="up" title="Glyphs for Programming"> <link href="_0040error.html" rel="next" title="@error"> <link href="_0040expansion.html" rel="prev" title="@expansion"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="subsection" id="g_t_0040print"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="_0040error.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@error{}</code> (error→): Indicating an Error Message</a>, Previous: <a href="_0040expansion.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@expansion{}</code> (→): Indicating an Expansion</a>, Up: <a href="Glyphs-for-Programming.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Glyphs for Programming</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="g_t_0040print_007b_007d-_0028_22a3_0029_003a-Indicating-Generated-Output"></span><h4 class="subsection">11.9.4 <code>@print{}</code> (-|): Indicating Generated Output</h4> <span id="Print-Glyph"></span><span id="index-print"></span> <span id="index-Printed-output_002c-indicating"></span> <p>Sometimes an expression will generate output during its execution. You can indicate such displayed output with the <code>@print{}</code> command. </p> <p>The <code>@print{}</code> command is displayed as ‘<samp>-|</samp>’, either a horizontal dash butting against a vertical bar or (when that is not available) the ASCII sequence ‘<samp>-|</samp>’. </p> <p>In the following example, the printed text is indicated with ‘<samp>-|</samp>’, and the value of the expression follows on the last line. </p> <div class="example lisp"> <pre class="lisp">(progn (print 'foo) (print 'bar)) -| foo -| bar ⇒ bar </pre></div> <p>In a Texinfo source file, this example is written as follows: </p> <div class="example lisp"> <pre class="lisp">@lisp (progn (print 'foo) (print 'bar)) @print{} foo @print{} bar @result{} bar @end lisp </pre></div> </div> </body> </html>