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0.2.2.1. The ``\section<n>`' command

There is really just one sectioning command:

\section<n>[Info-node-name]{Section heading}

where `<n>' is a positive integer, the sectioning depth. For example, you might have:

\documentstyle[literate]{book}
\rootsectiontype{\chapter}

\begin{document}

\section1[Node-1]{The top}


\section2[Node-2]{The next level}

\section3[Node-3]{The bottom level}

\section3[Node-4]{More on the bottom level}


\section2[Node-5]{Second part of the middle level}

\section3[Node-6]{Bottom level, next section}

\section3[Node-7]{Last section on bottom level}

\end{document}

As a convenience, the following synonyms are supported:

\section           \section1
\subsection        \section2

\subsubsection     \section3

\subsubsubsection  \section4

Saying `\rootsectiontype{\chapter}' causes `\section1', `\section2', and `\section3' to be translated into the LaTeX/Texinfo commands `\chapter', `\section', and `\subsection', respectively. This system supports deeper section nesting than LaTeX (12 levels vs. 7).

If you want a section heading but don't want anything to appear in the table of contents, put a `*' after the command name (just like LaTeX); for example:

\subsection*[\pageref]{\pl{\pageref{<label-or-node-name>}}}

If you want something that looks like a section heading but really isn't (no table-of-contents entry, no Info node), you probably want the `\heading{<title>}' command.

[Support your local creaky implementation: you must put sectioning commands on lines of their own.]

In making an Info file, the hierarchy of `\section<n>' commands will be turned into a corresponding hierarchy of Info nodes. With `info', you navigate along one level of the hierarchy with `Next'- and `Prev'-node links; you move up the hierarchy with `Up'-node links; and you move down the hierarchy (e.g., from a `\section<n>' to its `\section<n+1>'s) by choosing from an (automatically-generated) Info menu.

0.2.2.1. The `\section<n>' command

0.2.2.1. The ``\section<n>`' command