Re: Unreferenced Node

Heime via Users list for the Texinfo documentation system <[email protected]> Sun, 18 May 2025 16:42:36 +0000
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On Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 2:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 14:15:50 +0000
> > From: Heime [email protected]
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii [email protected], [email protected]
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> > On Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 1:36 AM, Heime via Users list for the Texi=
nfo documentation system [email protected] wrote:
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> > > On Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 12:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii [email protected] wro=
te:
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> > > > > Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 12:42:49 +0000
> > > > > From: Heime [email protected]
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> > > > > On Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 12:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii [email protected]=
 wrote:
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> > > > > > > Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 12:27:51 +0000
> > > > > > > From: Heime [email protected]
> > > > > > > Cc: [email protected]
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> > > > > > > I have
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> > > > > > > * 1 Getting Started:: Something
> > > > > > > * 2 What is Texinfo?:: Something
> > > > > > > * 3 Installing Texinfo:: Something
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> > > > > > > where 1 is a chapter, whilst 2 and 3 are sections
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> > > > > > Then 2 and 3 should be in a menu within 1.
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> > > > > Meaning that I need to have another @menu clause embedded in
> > > > > another @menu clause used for chapters?
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> > > > You need a @menu in the top node for chapter 1, and another @menu i=
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> > > > Chapter 1 for sections 2 and 3.
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> > > Having read the manual about the menu clauses, I find practically
> > > no information available for practical use. So my question still
> > > stands. You described it, but not enough to show what is actually
> > > written in the texinfo file.
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> > I recommend updating the manual to describe and show how to construct
> > menus for chapters and subsections well enough for people to instantly
> > know what to do. Total bewilderment here!
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> There is a chapter in the Texinfo manual named "Writing a Texinfo
> File", whose purpose is to provide these details. I suggest to read
> that.

Have read that, but the really part to give information is=20

2.10 The =E2=80=98Top=E2=80=99 Node and Master Menu=20

which covers only the Master Menu, but does not go into handling submenus.=
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