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<p>An <code>@section</code> command identifies a section within a chapter
unit, whether created with <code>@chapter</code>, <code>@unnumbered</code>, or
<code>@appendix</code>, following the numbering scheme of the chapter-level
command. Thus, within a <code>@chapter</code> chapter numbered ‘1’, the
sections are numbered ‘1.1’, ‘1.2’, etc.; within an <code>@appendix</code>
“chapter” labeled ‘A’, the sections are numbered ‘A.1’, ‘A.2’, etc.;
within an <code>@unnumbered</code> chapter, the section gets no number.
The output is underlined with ‘<samp>=</samp>’ in Info and plain text.
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<p>To make a section, write the <code>@section</code> command at the
beginning of a line and follow it on the same line by the section
title. For example,
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<pre class="example">@section This is a section
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<pre class="example">5.7 This is a section
=====================
</pre></div>
<p>Section titles are listed in the table of contents.
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<p>The TeX, HTML, Docbook, and XML output is all analogous to the
chapter-level output, just “one level down”; see <a href="_0040chapter.html"><code>@chapter</code></a>.
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