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(texinfo)Menu Location

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Menus Need Short Nodes
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  The short text before a menu may look awkward in a printed manual.  To
avoid this, you can write a menu near the beginning of its node and
follow the menu by an `@node' line, and then an `@heading' line located
within `@ifinfo' and `@end ifinfo'.  This way, the menu, `@node' line,
and title appear only in the Info file, not the printed document.

  For example, the preceding two paragraphs follow an Info-only menu,
`@node' line, and heading, and look like this:

     @menu
     * Menu Location::             Put a menu in a short node.
     * Writing a Menu::            What is a menu?
     * Menu Parts::                A menu entry has three parts.
     * Less Cluttered Menu Entry:: Two part menu entry.
     * Menu Example::              Two and three part entries.
     * Other Info Files::          How to refer to a different
                                     Info file.
     @end menu
     
     @node Menu Location, Writing a Menu, , Menus
     @ifinfo
     @heading Menus Need Short Nodes
     @end ifinfo

  The Texinfo file for this document contains more than a dozen
examples of this procedure.  One is at the beginning of this chapter;
another is at the beginning of Note: Cross References.