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<span id="The-_0040top-Sectioning-Command"></span><h3 class="section">4.6 The <code>@top</code> Sectioning Command</h3>
<span id="top-command"></span><span id="makeinfo-top"></span><span id="makeinfo-top-command"></span><span id="index-top-1"></span>
<p>The <code>@top</code> command is a special sectioning command that you
should only use after a ‘<samp>@node Top</samp>’ line at the beginning of a
Texinfo file. The <code>@top</code> command tells the <code>makeinfo</code>
formatter which node is to be used as the root of the node tree.
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<p>It produces the same sort of output as <code>@unnumbered</code>
(see <a href="_0040unnumbered-_0040appendix.html"><code>@unnumbered @appendix</code></a>).
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<p>The <code>@top</code> node is conventionally wrapped in an
<code>@ifnottex</code> conditional so that it will not appear in TeX
output (see <a href="Conditionals.html">Conditionals</a>).
Thus, in practice, a Top node usually looks like this:
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<pre class="example">@ifnottex
@node Top
@top <var>your-manual-title</var>
<var>very-high-level-summary</var>
@end ifnottex
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<p><code>@top</code> is ignored when raising or lowering sections. That is,
it is never lowered and nothing can be raised to it
(see <a href="Raise_002flower-sections.html">Raise/lower sections</a>).
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