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(texinfo)Writing a Menu

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Writing a Menu
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  A menu consists of an `@menu' command on a line by itself followed by
menu entry lines or menu comment lines and then by an `@end menu'
command on a line by itself.

  A menu looks like this:

     @menu
     Larger Units of Text
     
     * Files::                       All about handling files.
     * Multiples: Buffers.           Multiple buffers; editing
                                       several files at once.
     @end menu

  In a menu, every line that begins with an `* ' is a "menu entry".
(Note the space after the asterisk.)  A line that does not start with
an `* ' may also appear in a menu.  Such a line is not a menu entry but
is a menu comment line that appears in the Info file.  In the example
above, the line `Larger Units of Text' is a menu comment line; the two
lines starting with `* ' are menu entries.  Space characters in a menu
are preserved as-is; this allows you to format the menu as you wish.