The short text before a menu may look awkward in a printed manual. To avoid this, you can write a menu near the beginning of its node and follow the menu by an @node line, and then an @heading line located within @ifinfo and @end ifinfo. This way, the menu, @node line, and title appear only in the Info file, not the printed document.

For example, the preceding two paragraphs follow an Info-only menu, @node line, and heading, and look like this:

     @menu
     * Menu Location::             Put a menu in a short node.
     * Writing a Menu::            What is a menu?
     * Menu Parts::                A menu entry has three parts.
     * Less Cluttered Menu Entry:: Two part menu entry.
     * Menu Example::              Two and three part entries.
     * Other Info Files::          How to refer to a different
                                    Info file.
     @end menu
     
     @node Menu Location, Writing a Menu, , Menus
     @ifinfo
     @heading Menus Need Short Nodes
     @end ifinfo
     

The Texinfo file for this document contains a number of examples of this procedure; one is at the beginning of this chapter.