diff --git a/Doc/lib/libnntplib.tex b/Doc/lib/libnntplib.tex
index d2db0d5..e17ea8b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libnntplib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libnntplib.tex
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 statistics about a newsgroup and print the subjects of the last 10
 articles:
 
+\small{
 \begin{verbatim}
 >>> s = NNTP('news.cwi.nl')
 >>> resp, count, first, last, name = s.group('comp.lang.python')
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@
 '205 news.cwi.nl closing connection.  Goodbye.'
 >>> 
 \end{verbatim}
+}
 
 To post an article from a file (this assumes that the article has
 valid headers):