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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>@smallbook (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="@smallbook (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="@smallbook (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="Global-Document-Commands.html" rel="up" title="Global Document Commands"> <link href="A4-Paper.html" rel="next" title="A4 Paper"> <link href="_0040exampleindent.html" rel="prev" title="@exampleindent"> <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="section" id="g_t_0040smallbook"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="A4-Paper.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Printing on A4 Paper</a>, Previous: <a href="_0040exampleindent.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@exampleindent</code>: Environment Indenting</a>, Up: <a href="Global-Document-Commands.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Global Document Commands</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_0040smallbook_003a-Printing-_0060_0060Small_0027_0027-Books"></span><h3 class="section">E.6 <code>@smallbook</code>: Printing “Small” Books</h3> <span id="smallbook"></span><span id="index-smallbook"></span> <span id="index-Small-book-size"></span> <span id="index-Book_002c-printing-small"></span> <span id="index-Page-sizes-for-books"></span> <span id="index-Size-of-printed-book"></span> <p>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: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@smallbook </pre></div> <p>(Since many books are about 7 by 9.25 inches, this command might better have been called the <code>@regularbooksize</code> command, but it came to be called the <code>@smallbook</code> command by comparison to the 8.5 by 11 inch format.) </p> <p>If you write the <code>@smallbook</code> command between the start-of-header and end-of-header lines, the Texinfo mode TeX region formatting command, <code>texinfo-tex-region</code>, will format the region in “small” book size (see <a href="Start-of-Header.html">Start of Header</a>). </p> <p>See <a href="Format-with-texi2dvi.html">Format with <code>texi2dvi</code></a>, and <a href="Preparing-for-TeX.html">Preparing for TeX</a>, for other ways to format with <code>@smallbook</code> that do not require changing the source file. </p> </div> </body> </html>