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@verbatim: Literal Text

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 `end verbatim'.

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 produce no output, 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.