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Writing a Menu

A menu consists of an @menu command on a line by itself followed by menu entry lines or menu comment lines and then by an @end menu command on a line by itself.

A menu looks like this:

@menu
Larger Units of Text

* Files::                       All about handling files.
* Multiples: Buffers.           Multiple buffers; editing
                                  several files at once.
@end menu

In a menu, every line that begins with an *  is a menu entry. (Note the space after the asterisk.) A line that does not start with an *  may also appear in a menu. Such a line is not a menu entry but is a menu comment line that appears in the Info file. In the example above, the line Larger Units of Text is a menu comment line; the two lines starting with *  are menu entries. Space characters in a menu are preserved as-is; this allows you to format the menu as you wish.