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Chapter Structuring
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   The "chapter structuring" commands divide a document into a
hierarchy of chapters, sections, subsections, and subsubsections.
These commands generate large headings; they also provide information
for the table of contents of a printed manual (Contents).

   The chapter structuring commands do not create an Info node
structure, so normally you should put an `@node' command immediately
before each chapter structuring command (Nodes).  The only
time you are likely to use the chapter structuring commands without
using the node structuring commands is if you are writing a document
that contains no cross references and will never be transformed into
Info format.

   It is unlikely that you will ever write a Texinfo file that is
intended only as an Info file and not as a printable document.  If you
do, you might still use chapter structuring commands to create a
heading at the top of each node--but you don't need to.

* Menu:

* Tree Structuring             A manual is like an upside down tree ...
* Structuring Command Types    How to divide a manual into parts.
* makeinfo top                 The `@top' command, part of the `Top' node.
* chapter 
* unnumbered & appendix 
* majorheading & chapheading 
* section 
* unnumberedsec appendixsec heading 
* subsection 
* unnumberedsubsec appendixsubsec subheading 
* subsubsection                Commands for the lowest level sections.