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Conversely, the <code>@lowersections</code> command changes chapters to sections, sections to subsections, and so on. Thus, a <code>@lowersections</code> command cancels a <code>@raisesections</code> command, and vice versa. </p> <span id="index-Include-files_002c-and-section-levels"></span> <p>You can use <code>@lowersections</code> to include text written as an outer or standalone Texinfo file in another Texinfo file as an inner, included file (see <a href="Include-Files.html">Include Files</a>). Typical usage looks like this: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@lowersections @include somefile.texi @raisesections </pre></div> <p>(Without the <code>@raisesections</code>, all the subsequent sections in the main file would also be lowered.) </p> <p>If the included file being lowered has a <code>@top</code> node, you’ll need to conditionalize its inclusion with a flag (see <a href="_0040set-_0040value.html"><code>@set</code> and <code>@value</code></a>). </p> <p>As a practical matter, you generally only want to raise or lower large chunks, usually in external files as shown above. The final result has to have menus that take the raising and lowering into account, so you cannot just arbitrarily sprinkle <code>@raisesections</code> and <code>@lowersections</code> commands throughout the document. </p> <p>Repeated use of the commands continues to raise or lower the hierarchical level a step at a time. An attempt to raise above ‘chapter’ reproduces chapter commands; an attempt to lower below ‘subsubsection’ reproduces subsubsection commands. Also, lowered subsubsections and raised chapters will not work with <code>makeinfo</code>’s feature of implicitly determining node pointers, since the menu structure cannot be represented correctly. </p> <p>Write each <code>@raisesections</code> and <code>@lowersections</code> command on a line of its own. </p> </div> <hr> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="_0040part.html"><code>@part</code>: Groups of Chapters</a>, Up: <a href="Chapter-Structuring.html">Chapter Structuring</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> </body> </html>