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Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Writing-a-Menu.html#Writing-a-Menu">Writing a Menu</a>,
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<h3 class="section">7.1 Menu Location</h3>
<p><a name="index-Menu-location-341"></a><a name="index-Location-of-menus-342"></a>
A menu must be located at the end of a node, without any regular text
or additional commands between the <code>@end menu</code> and the beginning
of the next node. (As a consequence, there may be at most one menu in
a node.)
<p><a name="index-Info-format_002c-and-menus-343"></a>This is actually a useful restriction, since a reader who uses the
menu could easily miss any such text. Technically, it is necessary
because in Info format, there is no marker for the end of a menu, so
Info-reading programs would have no way to know when the menu ends and
normal text resumes.
<p><a name="index-Hierarchical-documents_002c-and-menus-344"></a>Technically, menus can carry you to any node, regardless of the
structure of the document; even to nodes in a different Info file.
However, we do not recommend ever making use of this, because the
<samp><span class="command">makeinfo</span></samp> implicit pointer creation feature (see <a href="makeinfo-Pointer-Creation.html#makeinfo-Pointer-Creation">makeinfo Pointer Creation</a>) and GNU Emacs Texinfo mode updating commands work
only to create menus of subordinate nodes in a hierarchically
structured document. Instead, use cross references to refer to
arbitrary nodes.
<p>In the past, we recommended using a ‘<samp><span class="samp">@heading</span></samp>’ command within an
<code>@ifinfo</code> conditional instead of the normal sectioning commands
after a very short node with a menu. This had the advantage of making
the printed output look better, because there was no very short text
between two headings on the page. But this also does not work with
<samp><span class="command">makeinfo</span></samp>'s implicit pointer creation, and it also makes the
XML output incorrect, since it does not reflect the true document
structure. So, regrettably, we can no longer recommend this.
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