(texinfo) The Top Node

(texinfo) Titlepage & Copyright Page
(texinfo) Global Document Commands
 
 The `Top' Node and Master Menu
 ==============================
 
   The `Top' node is the node in which a reader enters an Info manual.
 Document Permissions::) to provide a brief description of the manual
 (including the version number) and copying permissions, and end with a
 master menu for the whole manual.  Of course you should include any
 other general information you feel a reader would find helpful.
 
   It is also conventional to write an `@top' sectioning command line
 containing the title of the document immediately after the `@node Top'
 line ( The `@top' Sectioning Command makeinfo top command.).
 
   The contents of the `Top' node should appear only in the online
 output; none of it should appear in printed output, so enclose it
 between `@ifnottex' and `@end ifnottex' commands.  (TeX does not print
 either an `@node' line or a menu; they appear only in Info; strictly
 speaking, you are not required to enclose these parts between
 `@ifnottex' and `@end ifnottext', but it is simplest to do so.  
 Conditionally Visible Text Conditionals.)