doc: cookbook: Refer to the "Writing Manifests" manual node.

* doc/guix-cookbook.texi (Basic setup with manifests): Tweak
introductory paragraph.  Refer to the new "Writing Manifests" node of
the manual.
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@node Basic setup with manifests
@subsection Basic setup with manifests
A Guix profile can be set up @emph{via} a so-called @emph{manifest specification} that looks like
this:
A Guix profile can be set up @i{via} a @dfn{manifest}. A manifest is a
snippet of Scheme code that specifies the set of packages you want to
have in your profile; it looks like this:
@lisp
(specifications->manifest
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"package-N"))
@end lisp
@pxref{Invoking guix package,,, guix, GNU Guix Reference Manual}, for
the syntax details.
@xref{Writing Manifests,,, guix, GNU Guix Reference Manual}, for
more information about the syntax.
We can create a manifest specification per profile and install them this way: