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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>Start of Header (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Start of Header (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Start of Header (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="Texinfo-File-Header.html" rel="up" title="Texinfo File Header"> <link href="_0040setfilename.html" rel="next" title="@setfilename"> <link href="First-Line.html" rel="prev" title="First Line"> <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="Start-of-Header"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="_0040setfilename.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@setfilename</code>: Set the Output File Name</a>, Previous: <a href="First-Line.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">The First Line of a Texinfo File</a>, Up: <a href="Texinfo-File-Header.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Texinfo File Header</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="Start-of-Header-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">2.5.2 Start of Header</h4> <span id="index-Start-of-header-line"></span> <p>A start-of-header line is a Texinfo comment that looks like this: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@c %**start of header </pre></div> <p>Write the start-of-header line on the second line of a Texinfo file. Follow the start-of-header line with an <code>@settitle</code> line and, optionally, with other commands that globally affect the document formatting, such as <code>@synindex</code> or <code>@footnotestyle</code>; and then by an end-of-header line (see <a href="End-of-Header.html">End of Header</a>). </p> <p>The start- and end-of-header lines allow you to format only part of a Texinfo file for Info or printing. See <a href="texinfo_002dformat-commands.html">The <code>texinfo-format…</code> Commands</a>. </p> <p>The odd string of characters, ‘<samp>%**</samp>’, is to ensure that no other comment is accidentally taken for a start-of-header line. You can change it if you wish by setting the <code>tex-start-of-header</code> and/or <code>tex-end-of-header</code> Emacs variables. See <a href="Texinfo-Mode-Printing.html">Formatting and Printing in Texinfo Mode</a>. </p> </div> </body> </html>