5 Chapter Structuring

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 (see Generating a Table of 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 (see 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.

• 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.
• Raise/lower sections: How to change commands' hierarchical level.