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## 8.4 Naming a ‘Top’ Node

In a cross reference, you must always name a node. This means that in order to refer to a whole manual, you must identify the ‘Top’ node by writing it as the first argument to the `@xref` command. (This is different from the way you write a menu entry; see Referring to Other Info Files.) At the same time, to provide a meaningful section topic or title in the printed cross reference (instead of the word ‘Top’), you must write an appropriate entry for the third argument to the `@xref` command.

Thus, to make a cross reference to The GNU Make Manual, write:

    @xref{Top, , Overview, make, The GNU Make Manual}.

which produces

    *Note Overview: (make)Top.

and

> See section “Overview” in The GNU Make Manual.

In this example, ‘`Top`’ is the name of the first node, and ‘`Overview`’ is the name of the first section of the manual.

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