@subsection Version number
@cindex versioning
-The @code{\version} statement marks for which version of LilyPond the file
-was written. To mark a file for version 2.10.1, place
+The @code{\version} statement records the version of LilyPond that was
+used to write the file:
@example
\version "2.11.23"
@end example
@noindent
-at the top of your LilyPond file.
+by convention, this is placed at the top of your LilyPond file.
-These annotations make future upgrades of LilyPond go more
-smoothly. Changes in the syntax are handled with a special program,
-@file{convert-ly} (see @rprogram{Updating files with convert-ly}), and it uses
-@code{\version} to determine what rules to apply.
+These annotations make future upgrades of LilyPond go more smoothly.
+Changes in the syntax are handled with a special program,
+@file{convert-ly} (see @rprogram{Updating files with convert-ly}), and
+it uses @code{\version} to determine what rules to apply.
@node Adding titles
so) and click on the picture of the music. This will display the exact
input that LilyPond used to generate this manual.
+For information about the structure of the rest of the manual, see
+@ref{About this manual}.
+