(texinfo) Two Paths

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 Two Paths
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   The node and menu commands and the chapter structuring commands are
 technically independent of each other:
 
    * In Info, node and menu commands provide structure.  The chapter
      structuring commands generate headings with different kinds of
      underlining--asterisks for chapters, hyphens for sections, and so
      on; they do nothing else.
 
    * In TeX, the chapter structuring commands generate chapter and
      section numbers and tables of contents.  The node and menu
      commands provide information for cross references; they do nothing
      else.
 
   You can use node pointers and menus to structure an Info file any way
 you want; and you can write a Texinfo file so that its Info output has a
 different structure than its printed output.  However, virtually all
 Texinfo files are written such that the structure for the Info output
 corresponds to the structure for the printed output.  It is neither
 convenient nor understandable to the reader to do otherwise.
 
   Generally, printed output is structured in a tree-like hierarchy in
 which the chapters are the major limbs from which the sections branch
 out.  Similarly, node pointers and menus are organized to create a
 matching structure in the Info output.
 

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