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| <h3 class="section" id="How-to-Use-Include-Files">17.1 How to Use Include Files</h3> |
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| <p>To include another file within a Texinfo file, write the |
| <code class="code">@include</code> command at the beginning of a line and follow it on |
| the same line by the name of a file to be included. For example: |
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| <pre class="example-preformatted">@include buffers.texi |
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| <p>@-commands are expanded in file names. The one most likely to be |
| useful is <code class="code">@value</code> (see <a class="pxref" href="_0040set-_0040value.html"><code class="code">@set</code> and <code class="code">@value</code></a>), and even then |
| only in complicated situations. |
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| <p>An included file should simply be a segment of text that you expect to |
| be included as is into the overall or <em class="dfn">outer</em> Texinfo file; it |
| should not contain the standard beginning and end parts of a Texinfo |
| file. In particular, you should not start an included file with a |
| line saying ‘<samp class="samp">\input texinfo</samp>’; if you do, that text is inserted |
| into the output file literally. Likewise, you should not end an |
| included file with a <code class="code">@bye</code> command; nothing after <code class="code">@bye</code> |
| is formatted. |
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| <p>In the long-ago past, you were required to write an |
| <code class="code">@setfilename</code> line at the beginning of an included file, but no |
| longer. Now, it does not matter whether you write such a line. If an |
| <code class="code">@setfilename</code> line exists in an included file, it is ignored. |
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