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@@ -539,33 +539,23 @@ need to specify the toilet, because we want this rule to apply to all
 dark rooms (well, the only dark room in the game *is* the toilet, but we 
 are trying to provide a general rule).
 
-.. todo::
+   :samp:`objectloop (variable) {statement};`
 
-  Lots of italicized typewriter stuff here...
+is a loop statement, one of the four defined in Inform. A loop statement is
+a construct that allows you to run several times through a statement (or a
+statement block). ``objectloop`` performs the :samp:`{statement}` once for
+every object defined in the (``variable``) . If we were to code:
 
-.. code-block:: inform6
-
-  objectloop (variable) statement;
+   :samp:`objectloop (item) {statement};`
 
-is a loop statement, one of the four defined in Inform. A loop statement 
-is a construct that allows you to run several times through a statement 
-(or a statement block). ``objectloop`` performs the ``statement`` once 
-for every object defined in the (``variable``) . If we were to code:
+then the :samp:`{statement}` would be executed once for each object in the
+game. However, we want to perform the statement only for those objects
+whose parent object is the same as the player's parent object: that is, for
+objects in the same room as the player, so we instead code:
 
-.. code-block:: inform6
+   :samp:`objectloop (item in parent(player)) {statement};`
 
-  objectloop (item) statement;
-
-then the ``statement`` would be executed once for each object in the 
-game. However, we want to perform the statement only for those objects 
-whose parent object is the same as the player's parent object: that is, 
-for objects in the same room as the player, so we instead code:
-
-.. code-block:: inform6
-
-  objectloop (item in parent(player)) statement;
-
-What is the actual ``statement`` that we'll repeatedly execute?
+What is the actual :samp:`{statement}` that we'll repeatedly execute?
 
 .. code-block:: inform6
 
@@ -735,21 +725,6 @@ All the objects of our game are defined. Now we must add a couple of
 lines to the ``Initialise`` routine to make sure that the player does 
 not start the game naked:
 
-
-
-
-.. rubric:: Footnotes
-
-.. [#dark]
-
-  We're alluding here to the Classical concept of mimesis. In an 
-  oft-quoted essay from 1996, Roger Giner-Sorolla wrote: "I see 
-  successful fiction as an imitation or 'mimesis' of reality, be it 
-  this world's or an alternate world's. Well-written fiction leads the 
-  reader to temporarily enter and believe in the reality of that world. 
-  A crime against mimesis is any aspect of an IF game that breaks the 
-  coherence of its fictional world as a representation of reality."
-
 .. code-block:: inform6
 
   [ Initialise;
@@ -910,3 +885,16 @@ done. All that's left is to recap some of the more important issues,
 talk a little more about compilation and debugging, and send you off 
 into the big wide world of IF authorship.
 
+
+.. rubric:: Footnotes
+
+.. [#dark]
+
+  We're alluding here to the Classical concept of mimesis. In an 
+  oft-quoted essay from 1996, Roger Giner-Sorolla wrote: "I see 
+  successful fiction as an imitation or 'mimesis' of reality, be it 
+  this world's or an alternate world's. Well-written fiction leads the 
+  reader to temporarily enter and believe in the reality of that world. 
+  A crime against mimesis is any aspect of an IF game that breaks the 
+  coherence of its fictional world as a representation of reality."
+