Re: @smallbook and friends

[Simon Law]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:00:38PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>             In the documentation, it mentions that @smallexample,
>     @smalllisp, @smalldisplay, and @smallformat should be used with
>     @smallbook.  
> 
> Where does it say that?  I'm not sure that's necessarily true.
> 
>     This begs the question, why doesn't @smallbook
>     automatically turn all calls of @foo into @smallfoo?
> 
> Because an author doesn't necessarily want all examples printed in a
> smaller font.

        I see.

        The documentation does not make it clear that @smallfoo doesn't
do anything unless @smallbook has been called.

Simon