## 10.4 `@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 `<at>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.

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