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When you install an Info file onto your system, you can use the program
install-info to update the Info directory file dir.
Normally the makefile for the package runs install-info, just
after copying the Info file into its proper installed location.
In order for the Info file to work with install-info, you include
the commands @dircategory and
@direntry...@end direntry in the Texinfo source
file. Use @direntry to specify the menu entries to add to the
Info directory file, and use @dircategory to specify which part
of the Info directory to put it in. Here is how these commands are used
in this manual:
@dircategory Texinfo documentation system @direntry * Texinfo: (texinfo). The GNU documentation format. * install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. ... ... @end direntry
Here's what this produces in the Info file:
INFO-DIR-SECTION Texinfo documentation system START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * Texinfo: (texinfo). The GNU documentation format. * install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. ... ... END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
The install-info program sees these lines in the Info file, and
that is how it knows what to do.
Always use the @direntry and @dircategory commands near
the beginning of the Texinfo input, before the first @node
command. If you use them later on in the input, install-info
will not notice them.
If you use @dircategory more than once in the Texinfo source,
each usage specifies the `current' category; any subsequent
@direntry commands will add to that category.
Here are some recommended @dircategory categories:
GNU packages GNU programming tools GNU programming documentation GNU Emacs Lisp GNU libraries TeX Individual utilities
The idea is to include the `Invoking' node for every program installed by a package under `Individual utilities', and an entry for the manual as a whole in the appropriate other category.