Re: Structuring commands as macros

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Richard Kim wrote:

> What is the rationale for specifying Next/Prev/Up
> links in the @node line at all?  It seems like there is no
> advantage since both makeinfo and texi2html seems to figure
> out these links from the structuring commands such as
> chapter, section, etc.

A Texinfo document is not required to have the sectioning commands.  You 
might want not to use them if, for example, you don't intend to print the 
document.  But you still want to have Next/Prev/Up pointers in such a 
document.