About this guide
==================
+.. highlight:: inform6
+
.. epigraph::
| *If they asked me, I could write a book;*
-- with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
-Text adventures, otherwise known collectively as interactive fiction (IF),
+.. only:: html
+
+ .. image:: /images/picT.png
+ :align: left
+
+.. raw:: latex
+
+ \dropcap{t}
+
+ext adventures, otherwise known collectively as interactive fiction (IF),
were highly popular computer games during the 1980s. As technology evolved
they faded from the market, unable to compete with increasingly
sophisticated graphical games; however, IF was far from dead. The Internet
glossary -- Appendix G on page 273. We switch to italic type for a
placeholder: for example you should read the Inform statement:
-.. parsed-literal::
-
- print "*string*";
+ :samp:`print "{string}";`
as meaning "display on the player's screen the arbitrary character or
characters which are represented here by the placeholder *string*".
Alphabet", digitised from a collection of public domain woodcuts, circa
1834, by Steven J. Lundeen of emerald city fontwerks.
-.. todo::
-
- Reference to the drop-caps should only apply to those places they're
- used (just the PDF?).
-
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