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`@settitle'
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   In order to be made into a printed manual, a Texinfo file must
contain a line that looks like this:

     @settitle TITLE

   Write the `@settitle' command at the beginning of a line and follow
it on the same line by the title.  This tells TeX the title to use in a
header or footer.  Do not write anything else on the line; anything on
the line after the command is considered part of the title, including a
comment.

   Conventionally, TeX formats a Texinfo file for double-sided output
so as to print the title in the left-hand (even-numbered) page headings
and the current chapter titles in the right-hand (odd-numbered) page
headings.  (TeX learns the title of each chapter from each `@chapter'
command.)  Page footers are not printed.

   Even if you are printing in a single-sided style, TeX looks for an
`@settitle' command line, in case you include the manual title in the
heading.

   The `@settitle' command should precede everything that generates
actual output in TeX.

   Although the title in the `@settitle' command is usually the same as
the title on the title page, it does not affect the title as it appears
on the title page.  Thus, the two do not need not match exactly;  and
the title in the `@settitle' command can be a shortened or expanded
version of the title as it appears on the title page. (titlepage)

   TeX prints page headings only for that text that comes after the
`@end titlepage' command in the Texinfo file, or that comes after an
`@headings' command that turns on headings.  (headings on off,
for more information.)

   You may, if you wish, create your own, customized headings and
footings.  Headings, for a detailed discussion of
this process.