@example vs @smallexample?

[Andrew Cagney]

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> 
>> > I wonder whether we should add a comment in the manual saying that
>> > only @smallexample should be used.
> 
>> 
>> In a (er @chapter :-)
> 
> 
> We could make it an @appendix.
> 
> 
>> that documents the conventions used by the manual? 
> 
> 
> Yes, that sounds like a good place.  Perhaps as a footnote (since it's a 
> minor matter for someone who reads the text, not writes new content).

I think it is normally found somewhere towards the end of the first 
chapter (assuming that chapter is a general intro of the manual). After 
``we need free documentation''.

Andrew