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Tree Structure of Sections
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   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.

   Here is a diagram that shows a Texinfo file with three chapters,
each of which has two sections.

                               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

   In a Texinfo file that has this structure, the beginning of Chapter 2
looks like this:

     @node    Chapter 2,  Chapter 3, Chapter 1, top
     @chapter Chapter 2

   The chapter structuring commands are described in the sections that
follow; the `@node' and `@menu' commands are described in following
chapters. (Nodes , and see Menus.)