Added chapter 16.

[ibg.git] / about.rst

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@@ -11,8 +11,14 @@
 
    -- with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
 
-.. image:: /images/picT.png
-  :align: left
+.. 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
@@ -90,9 +96,7 @@ words which are part of the Inform system (like ``print``, ``Include``,
 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*".
@@ -199,11 +203,6 @@ 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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