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 .. epigraph::
 
 
 .. epigraph::
 

-   | *If they asked me, I could write a book;*
-   | *About the way you TALK, and LISTEN; And LOOK.*
+   | |CENTER| *If they asked me, I could write a book;*
+   | |CENTER| *About the way you TALK, and LISTEN; And LOOK.*

 
    -- with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
 
 
    -- with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
 


@@ -58,13 +58,13 @@ Scope and approach
 
 Because this is only an introduction to Inform, many features are treated
 rather superficially, or ignored altogether.  The definitive text is Graham
 
 Because this is only an introduction to Inform, many features are treated
 rather superficially, or ignored altogether.  The definitive text is Graham

-Nelson's Inform *Designer's Manual* (Fourth Edition, July 2001), commonly
-known as the DM4; you cannot hope to use Inform successfully without having
-this splendid book by your side.  Our guide should be seen merely as a
-supplement to the DM4, offering step-by-step descriptions of those aspects
-of Inform which are most important on first acquaintance.  In any matter
-where we seem at odds with what Graham has written, you should assume that
-he is right and that we are, well, confused.
+Nelson's |DM4| (Fourth Edition, July 2001), commonly known as the DM4; you
+cannot hope to use Inform successfully without having this splendid book by
+your side.  Our guide should be seen merely as a supplement to the DM4,
+offering step-by-step descriptions of those aspects of Inform which are
+most important on first acquaintance.  In any matter where we seem at odds
+with what Graham has written, you should assume that he is right and that
+we are, well, confused.

 
 As a tutorial, this guide is intended to be printed out and then read
 sequentially; it isn't meant for online usage or designed as a reference
 
 As a tutorial, this guide is intended to be printed out and then read
 sequentially; it isn't meant for online usage or designed as a reference


@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ locations:
 *   http://www.inform-fiction.org/
 
     The Inform home page, maintained by Graham Nelson and a small team of
 *   http://www.inform-fiction.org/
 
     The Inform home page, maintained by Graham Nelson and a small team of

-    helpers.  Most important, this is where you can find the *Inform
-    Designer's Manual* in PDF format.
+    helpers.  Most important, this is where you can find the |DM4| in PDF
+    format.

 
 *   http://mirror.ifarchive.org/
 
 
 *   http://mirror.ifarchive.org/
 


@@ -222,13 +222,13 @@ for devising it all, thereby giving us the opportunity -- first
 independently and later in enjoyable collaboration -- of using, and
 eventually of presenting, the Inform text adventure development system.
 
 independently and later in enjoyable collaboration -- of using, and
 eventually of presenting, the Inform text adventure development system.
 

-| *Roger Firth*
-| *Wallingford, England*
+| |FILL| *Roger Firth*
+| |FILL| *Wallingford, England*

 
 

-| *Sonja Kesserich*
-| *Madrid, Spain*
+| |FILL| *Sonja Kesserich*
+| |FILL| *Madrid, Spain*

 
 

-| *August 2004*
+| |FILL| *August 2004*

 
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
 
 
 .. rubric:: Footnotes