Introduction
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-This repository contains the sources for the
+This repository contains the sources for an updated version of the
[Inform Beginner's Guide](http://www.firthworks.com/roger/IBG.html),
henceforth known as the IBG. This version is in a new source format that's
more version-control and contributor-friendly:
* Some old web links have gone away, to be replaced by new and better
ones.
+If you want a preview of how the online HTML version of the new guide
+looks, you can find it [here](http://inform-beginners-guide.readthedocs.org).
+
Building from source
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make latexpdf
Other formats are available; just type `make` for more details.
-
-Conversion strategy
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-
-The first three editions of the IBG were created with
-[Adobe FrameMaker](http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker.html). And the
-FrameMaker source files have kindly been supplied by Roger Firth to make
-this update, which opened up the possibility of creating an auto-converter.
-
-But unfortunately, what with FrameMaker being proprietary, there isn't much
-out there apart from FrameMaker itself that can read them. I was hoping
-that conversion using [Mif2Go](http://mif2go.com) might be a possibility,
-but it turns out that that's just a plugin for FrameMaker. I guess I could
-get a trial FrameMaker license, try to set up the plugin and get it to
-autoconvert to some usable format, but it all looks far too messy. But on
-the plus side, the supplied GIF images are totally usable.
-
-So, it's back to my original plan: use the PDF file. Here's the first
-(major) part of the work:
-
-* Dump the text out of the PDF file
-* Convert all the 3rd edition text to Sphinx format
-* Get the online version to look good
-
-After that comes the 4th edition changes, hopefully in collaboration with
-others. Also, in parallel with that, other niceties:
-
-* Add a glossary
-* Add an index
-* Prepare a new PDF version, via the Sphinx LaTeX converter
projects / ibg.git / blobdiff