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 Structuring Command Types
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   The chapter structuring commands fall into four groups or series, each
 of which contains structuring commands corresponding to the
 hierarchical levels of chapters, sections, subsections, and
 subsubsections.
 
   The four groups are the `@chapter' series, the `@unnumbered' series,
 the `@appendix' series, and the `@heading' series.
 
   Each command produces titles that have a different appearance on the
 printed page or Info file; only some of the commands produce titles
 that are listed in the table of contents of a printed book or manual.
 
    * The `@chapter' and `@appendix' series of commands produce numbered
      or lettered entries both in the body of a printed work and in its
      table of contents.
 
    * The `@unnumbered' series of commands produce unnumbered entries
      both in the body of a printed work and in its table of contents.
      The `@top' command, which has a special use, is a member of this
      series ( `@top' makeinfo top.).
 
    * The `@heading' series of commands produce unnumbered headings that
      do not appear in a table of contents.  The heading commands never
      start a new page.
 
    * The `@majorheading' command produces results similar to using the
      `@chapheading' command but generates a larger vertical whitespace
      before the heading.
 
    * When an `@setchapternewpage' command says to do so, the
      `@chapter', `@unnumbered', and `@appendix' commands start new
      pages in the printed manual; the `@heading' commands do not.
 
   Here are the four groups of chapter structuring commands:
 
                                                             No new page
 Numbered       Unnumbered             Lettered/numbered     Unnumbered
 In contents    In contents            In contents           Omitted from
                                                             contents
                `@top'                                       `@majorheading'
 `@chapter'     `@unnumbered'          `@appendix'           `@chapheading'
 `@section'     `@unnumberedsec'       `@appendixsec'        `@heading'
 `@subsection'  `@unnumberedsubsec'    `@appendixsubsec'     `@subheading'
 `@subsubsection'`@unnumberedsubsubsec' `@appendixsubsubsec'  `@subsubheading'
 

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