VERBATIM
When the verbatim symbols/@
and@/
frame text in the template file, the text is passed literally (without interpretation) to the output segment file. Comments inside the frame, rather than being ignored, are also passed literally. The end-of-statement character, “;”, is not required following the concluding verbatim symbol.
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Short text passages such as titles, opening remarks, and so on. Despite the absence of any length restriction on verbatim text, longer text passages are usually passed using the
INCLUDE
file statement.
SEGMENT section1;
BEGIN /@
.title ACTIVITY-SPEC
.skip 2
.center; AN ACTIVITY SPECIFICATION
-- This section will describe the
-- purpose of the activities.
@/
-- this line will not appear in the output
END;When the template is executed, the resulting output is as follows:
title ACTIVITY-SPEC
.skip 2
.center; AN ACTIVITY SPECIFICATION
-- This section will describe the
-- purpose of the activities.
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