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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>Tree Structuring (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Tree Structuring (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Tree Structuring (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="Chapter-Structuring.html" rel="up" title="Chapter Structuring"> <link href="Structuring-Command-Types.html" rel="next" title="Structuring Command Types"> <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="Tree-Structuring"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Structuring-Command-Types.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Structuring Command Types</a>, Up: <a href="Chapter-Structuring.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">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> <hr> <span id="Tree-Structure-of-Sections"></span><h3 class="section">4.1 Tree Structure of Sections</h3> <span id="index-Tree-structuring"></span> <p>A Texinfo file is usually structured like a book with chapters, sections, subsections, and the like. This structure can be visualized as a tree (or rather as an upside-down tree) with the root at the top and the levels corresponding to chapters, sections, subsection, and subsubsections. </p> <p>Here is a diagram that shows a Texinfo file with three chapters, each with two sections. </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example"> Top | ------------------------------------- | | | Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 | | | -------- -------- -------- | | | | | | Section Section Section Section Section Section 1.1 1.2 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 </pre></div> <p>In a Texinfo file that has this structure, the beginning of Chapter 2 would be written like this: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@node Chapter 2 @chapter Chapter 2 </pre></div> <p>For purposes of example, here is how it would be written with explicit node pointers: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@node Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 1, Top @chapter Chapter 2 </pre></div> <p>The chapter structuring commands are described in the sections that follow; the <code>@node</code> command is described in the previous chapter (see <a href="Nodes.html">Nodes</a>). </p> </div> </body> </html>