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<span id="Standard-Heading-Formats"></span><h3 class="section">E.2 Standard Heading Formats</h3>
<p>Texinfo provides two standard heading formats, one for manuals printed
on one side of each sheet of paper, and the other for manuals printed
on both sides of the paper.
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<p>By default, nothing is specified for the footing of a Texinfo file,
so the footing remains blank.
</p>
<p>The standard format for single-sided printing consists of a header
line in which the left-hand part contains the name of the chapter, the
central part is blank, and the right-hand part contains the page
number.
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<p>A single-sided page looks like this:
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<pre class="example"> _______________________
| |
| chapter page number |
| |
| Start of text ... |
| ... |
| |
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<p>The standard format for two-sided printing depends on whether the page
number is even or odd. By convention, even-numbered pages are on the
left- and odd-numbered pages are on the right. (TeX will adjust the
widths of the left- and right-hand margins. Usually, widths are
correct, but during double-sided printing, it is wise to check that
pages will bind properly—sometimes a printer will produce output in
which the even-numbered pages have a larger right-hand margin than the
odd-numbered pages.)
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<p>In the standard double-sided format, the left part of the left-hand
(even-numbered) page contains the page number, the central part is
blank, and the right part contains the title (specified by the
<code>@settitle</code> command). The left part of the right-hand
(odd-numbered) page contains the name of the chapter, the central part
is blank, and the right part contains the page number.
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<p>Two pages, side by side as in an open book, look like this:
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<pre class="example"> _______________________ _______________________
| | | |
| page number title | | chapter page number |
| | | |
| Start of text ... | | More text ... |
| ... | | ... |
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<p>The chapter name is preceded by the word “Chapter”, the chapter number
and a colon. This makes it easier to keep track of where you are in the
manual.
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