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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>The Body of the Document (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="The Body of the Document (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="The Body of the Document (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="Writing-a-Texinfo-File.html" rel="up" title="Writing a Texinfo File"> <link href="Ending-a-File.html" rel="next" title="Ending a File"> <link href="The-Top-Node.html" rel="prev" title="The Top Node"> <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="section" id="The-Body-of-the-Document"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Ending-a-File.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Ending a Texinfo File</a>, Previous: <a href="The-Top-Node.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">The ‘Top’ Node and Master Menu</a>, Up: <a href="Writing-a-Texinfo-File.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Writing a Texinfo File</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="The-Body-of-the-Document-1"></span><h3 class="section">2.10 The Body of the Document</h3> <span id="index-Frontmatter_002c-text-in"></span> <p>The body segment contains all the text of the document. A manual is divided into one or more <em>nodes</em> (see <a href="Nodes.html">Nodes</a>). The example illustrates a chapter made of three nodes, one for introductory material in the chapter, and two sections. The introductory material contains an enumerated list. </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@node First Chapter @chapter First Chapter @cindex chapter, first This is the first chapter. @cindex index entry, another Here is a numbered list. @enumerate @item This is the first item. @item This is the second item. @end enumerate @node First Section @section First Section First section of first chapter. @node Second Section @section Second Section Second section of first chapter. </pre></div> <p>In the Info output, the ‘<samp>First Chapter</samp>’ node will contain a menu listing the two sections in the chapter. Similarly, when this node is output in its own HTML file, it will contain a table of contents for the chapter. </p> <p>Here is what the contents of this chapter will look like: </p> <br> <blockquote> <span id="g_t1_002e-First-Chapter"></span><h2 class="chapheading">1. First Chapter</h2> <p>This is the first chapter. </p> <p>Here is a numbered list. </p> <ol> <li> This is the first item. </li><li> This is the second item. </li></ol> <span id="g_t1_002e1-First-Section"></span><h3 class="heading">1.1 First Section</h3> <p>First section of first chapter. </p> <span id="g_t1_002e2-Second-Section"></span><h3 class="heading">1.2 Second Section</h3> <p>Second section of first chapter. </p></blockquote> <p>(In the Info and HTML output, the chapter would also be split into nodes.) </p> </div> </body> </html>