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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.