Added chapter 16.

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+++ b/about.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  About this guide
 ==================
 
-.. highlight:: inform
+.. highlight:: inform6
 
 .. epigraph::
 
@@ -11,7 +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
@@ -87,9 +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*".
@@ -196,11 +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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