Added chapter 14.

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+++ b/about.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
  About this guide
 ==================
 
+.. highlight:: inform6
+
 .. epigraph::
 
    | *If they asked me, I could write a book;*
@@ -9,7 +11,16 @@
 
    -- 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
@@ -89,6 +100,15 @@ placeholder: for example you should read the Inform statement:
 
    print "*string*";
 
+.. todo::
+
+   The above will not render correctly in PDF.  In PDF the leading 
+   quotes always appear with at least one backquote.  At the moment, the 
+   best solution I can think up is to have a script fire off after LaTeX 
+   generation to take care of this problem so that when the LaTeX code 
+   is compiled, we'll get the correct glyphs.  At the moment, I don't 
+   know how to make such a script automatically run.
+
 as meaning "display on the player's screen the arbitrary character or
 characters which are represented here by the placeholder *string*".
 Examples might include::
@@ -194,11 +214,6 @@ The drop capitals, and their associated poem, are from "A Picture
 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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