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<h4 class="node-heading">Info Format Whole Manual</h4>
<span id="Info-Format_003a-A-Whole-Manual"></span><h4 class="subheading">Info Format: A Whole Manual</h4>
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<p>To begin, an Info manual is either <em>nonsplit</em> (contained wholly
within a single file) or <em>split</em> (across several files).
</p>
<p>The syntax for a nonsplit manual is:
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<pre class="example"> <nonsplit info file> =
<preamble>
<node>*
<tag table>?
<local variables>?
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<p>When split, there is a <em>main file</em>, which contains only pointers
to the nodes given in other <em>subfiles</em>. The main file looks
like this:
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<pre class="example"> <split info main file> =
<preamble>
<indirect table>
<tag table>
<local variables>?
</pre></div>
<p>The subfiles in a split manual have the following syntax:
</p>
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<pre class="example"> <split info subfile> =
<preamble>
<node>*
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<p>Note that the tag table is not optional for split files, as it is used
with the indirect table to deduce which subfile a particular node is in.
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