GNU Texinfo 4.2: 3.5 The `Top' Node and Master Menu

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## 3.5 The ‘Top’ Node and Master Menu

The ‘Top’ node is the node in which a reader enters an Info manual. As such, it should begin with the `@insertcopying` command (see section Document Permissions) to provide a brief description of the manual (including the version number) and copying permissions, and end with a master menu for the whole manual. Of course you should include any other general information you feel a reader would find helpful.

It is also conventional to write an `@top` sectioning command line containing the title of the document immediately after the `@node Top` line (see section The `@top` Sectioning Command).

The contents of the ‘Top’ node should appear only in the online output; none of it should appear in printed output, so enclose it between `@ifnottex` and `@end ifnottex` commands. (TeX does not print either an `@node` line or a menu; they appear only in Info; strictly speaking, you are not required to enclose these parts between `@ifnottex` and `@end ifnottext`, but it is simplest to do so. See section Conditionally Visible Text.)

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