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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Less Cluttered Menu Entry (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Less Cluttered Menu Entry (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Less Cluttered Menu Entry (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Menus.html" rel="up" title="Menus"> <link href="Other-Info-Files.html" rel="next" title="Other Info Files"> <link href="Menu-Parts.html" rel="prev" title="Menu Parts"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="subsection" id="Less-Cluttered-Menu-Entry"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Other-Info-Files.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Referring to Other Info Files</a>, Previous: <a href="Menu-Parts.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">The Parts of a Menu</a>, Up: <a href="Menus.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Menus</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Less-Cluttered-Menu-Entry-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">3.8.5 Less Cluttered Menu Entry</h4> <span id="index-Two-part-menu-entry"></span> <span id="index-Double_002dcolon-menu-entries"></span> <span id="index-Menu-entries-with-two-colons"></span> <span id="index-Less-cluttered-menu-entry"></span> <span id="index-Uncluttered-menu-entry"></span> <p>When the menu entry name and node name are the same, you can write the name immediately after the asterisk and space at the beginning of the line and follow the name with two colons. </p> <p>For example, write </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">* Name:: <var>description</var> </pre></div> <p>instead of </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">* Name: Name. <var>description</var> </pre></div> <p>We recommend using the node name for the menu entry name whenever possible, since it reduces visual clutter in the menu. </p> </div> </body> </html>