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The short text before a menu may look awkward in a printed manual. To
avoid this, you can write a menu near the beginning of its node and
follow the menu by an @node line, and then an @heading
line located within @ifinfo and @end ifinfo. This way,
the menu, @node line, and title appear only in the Info file,
not the printed document.
For example, the preceding two paragraphs follow an Info-only menu,
@node line, and heading, and look like this:
@menu
* Menu Location:: Put a menu in a short node.
* Writing a Menu:: What is a menu?
* Menu Parts:: A menu entry has three parts.
* Less Cluttered Menu Entry:: Two part menu entry.
* Menu Example:: Two and three part entries.
* Other Info Files:: How to refer to a different
Info file.
@end menu
@node Menu Location, Writing a Menu, , Menus
@ifinfo
@heading Menus Need Short Nodes
@end ifinfo
The Texinfo file for this document contains a number of examples of this procedure; one is at the beginning of this chapter.