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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>small (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="small (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="small (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="Quotations-and-Examples.html" rel="up" title="Quotations and Examples"> <link href="_0040cartouche.html" rel="prev" title="@cartouche"> <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="small"> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="_0040cartouche.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@cartouche</code>: Rounded Rectangles</a>, Up: <a href="Quotations-and-Examples.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Quotations and Examples</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_0040small_2026-Block-Commands"></span><h3 class="section">7.15 <code>@small…</code> Block Commands</h3> <span id="index-smallexample"></span> <span id="index-smallformat"></span> <span id="index-smalllisp"></span> <span id="index-smallquotation"></span> <span id="index-smalldisplay"></span> <span id="index-smallindentedblock"></span> <span id="index-Small-examples"></span> <span id="index-Examples-in-smaller-fonts"></span> <span id="index-Quotations-in-smaller-fonts"></span> <span id="index-Lisp-examples-in-smaller-fonts"></span> <p>In addition to the regular <code>@example</code> and similar commands, Texinfo has “small” example-style commands. These are <code>@smallquotation</code>, <code>@smallindentedblock</code>, <code>@smalldisplay</code>, <code>@smallexample</code>, <code>@smallformat</code>, and <code>@smalllisp</code>. </p> <p>In Info and HTML output, the <code>@small…</code> commands are equivalent to their non-small companion commands. </p> <p>In TeX, however, the <code>@small…</code> commands typeset text in a smaller font than the non-small example commands. Thus, for instance, code examples can contain longer lines and still fit on a page without needing to be rewritten. </p> <p>A smaller font size is also retained in the Texinfo XML transliteration. </p> <p>Mark the end of a <code>@small…</code> block with a corresponding <code>@end small…</code>. For example, pair <code>@smallexample</code> with <code>@end smallexample</code>. </p> <p>Here is an example of the font used by the <code>@smallexample</code> command (in Info, the output will be the same as usual): </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">… to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. </pre></div> <p>The <code>@small…</code> commands use the same font style as their normal counterparts: <code>@smallexample</code> and <code>@smalllisp</code> use a fixed-width font, and everything else uses the regular font. They also have the same behavior in other respects—whether filling is done and whether margins are narrowed. </p> <p>As a general rule, it’s better to just use the regular commands (such as <code>@example</code> instead of <code>@smallexample</code>), unless you have a good reason for it. </p> </div> <hr> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="_0040cartouche.html"><code>@cartouche</code>: Rounded Rectangles</a>, Up: <a href="Quotations-and-Examples.html">Quotations and Examples</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> </body> </html>