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<span id="g_t_0040settitle_003a-Set-the-Document-Title"></span><h4 class="subsection">3.2.4 <code>@settitle</code>: Set the Document Title</h4>
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<p>A Texinfo file should contain a line that looks like this:
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<pre class="example">@settitle <var>title</var>
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<p>Write the <code>@settitle</code> command at the beginning of a line and
follow it on the same line by the title. Do not write anything else
on the line. The <code>@settitle</code> command should precede everything
that generates actual output. The best place for it is right after
the <code>@setfilename</code> command (described in the previous section).
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<p>This command tells TeX the title to use in a header or footer
for double-sided output, in case such headings are output. For
more on headings for TeX, see <a href="Heading-Generation.html">Heading Generation</a>.
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<p>In the HTML file produced by <code>makeinfo</code>, <var>title</var> serves as
the document ‘<samp><title></samp>’. It also becomes the default document
description in the ‘<samp><head></samp>’ part
(see <a href="_0040documentdescription.html"><code>@documentdescription</code></a>).
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<p>When the title page is used in the output, the title in the
<code>@settitle</code> command does not affect the title as it appears on
the title page. Thus, the two do not need not to match exactly. A
practice we recommend is to include the version or edition number of
the manual in the <code>@settitle</code> title; on the title page, the
version number generally appears as a <code>@subtitle</code> so it would
be omitted from the <code>@title</code>. See <a href="_0040titlepage.html"><code>@titlepage</code></a>.
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