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Creating Pointers with makeinfo

The makeinfo program has a feature for automatically creating node pointers for a hierarchically organized file that lacks them.

When you take advantage of this feature, you do not need to write the `Next', `Previous', and `Up' pointers after the name of a node. However, you must write a sectioning command, such as @chapter or @section, on the line immediately following each truncated @node line. You cannot write a comment line after a node line; the section line must follow it immediately.

In addition, you must follow the `Top' @node line with a line beginning with @top to mark the `Top' node in the file. See section @top.

Finally, you must write the name of each node (except for the `Top' node) in a menu that is one or more hierarchical levels above the node's hierarchical level.

This node pointer insertion feature in makeinfo is an alternative to the menu and pointer creation and update commands in Texinfo mode. (See section Updating Nodes and Menus.) It is especially helpful to people who do not use GNU Emacs for writing Texinfo documents.

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