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<span id="Updating-Nodes-and-Menus-1"></span><h3 class="section">D.5 Updating Nodes and Menus</h3>
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<p>Texinfo mode provides commands for automatically creating or updating
menus and node pointers. The commands are called “update” commands
because their most frequent use is for updating a Texinfo file after you
have worked on it; but you can use them to insert the ‘Next’,
‘Previous’, and ‘Up’ pointers into an <code>@node</code> line that has none
and to create menus in a file that has none.
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<p>If you do not use any updating commands, you need to write menus by
hand, which is a tedious task.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Updating-Commands.html" accesskey="1">Updating Commands</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Five major updating commands.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Updating-Requirements.html" accesskey="2">Updating Requirements</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">How to structure a Texinfo file for
using the updating command.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Other-Updating-Commands.html" accesskey="3">Other Updating Commands</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">How to indent descriptions, insert
missing nodes lines, and update
nodes in sequence.
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