X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=ibg.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=about.rst;h=0cbd9d3a460b27fa303550f635628ff0ecb88246;hp=ed87193f9cac1e201af12f40fbde83a5bf8bd43b;hb=7ab0306c0b24bf617c0281e45233d3d59477cd98;hpb=fd8f547191457928785b8bc38570b05205f369ac diff --git a/about.rst b/about.rst index ed87193..0cbd9d3 100644 --- a/about.rst +++ b/about.rst @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ .. epigraph:: - | *If they asked me, I could write a book;* - | *About the way you TALK, and LISTEN; And LOOK.* + | |CENTER| *If they asked me, I could write a book;* + | |CENTER| *About the way you TALK, and LISTEN; And LOOK.* -- with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ and writing tutorials and reviews, these enthusiasts have led a revival responsible for many notable works, including some whose quality arguably surpasses that of the best commercial titles of the 1980s. +.. Generated by autoindex +.. index:: + single: TADS + Nowadays, IF is a hobby; almost everything that you need to begin writing your own text adventures is available, for free, on the Internet. While expert programmers may relish the considerable challenge of creating @@ -146,6 +150,10 @@ locations: * http://mirror.ifarchive.org/ + .. Generated by autoindex + .. index:: + single: IF Archive + The IF Archive (or actually a high-speed mirror copy of it), from which you can download almost anything that's free and in the public domain. For a clickable map of Inform-related parts of the Archive, see @@ -170,6 +178,10 @@ locations: * :newsgroup:`rec.arts.int-fiction` + .. Generated by autoindex + .. index:: + single: RAIF + The Usenet newsgroup for authors of IF, commonly known by the abbreviation RAIF. Here you'll find discussion on IF technology, criticism and game design issues, and fast, friendly and knowledgeable @@ -178,6 +190,10 @@ locations: * :newsgroup:`rec.games.int-fiction` + .. Generated by autoindex + .. index:: + single: RGIF + The complementary newsgroup for IF *players*, often known as RGIF. .. todo:: @@ -222,13 +238,13 @@ for devising it all, thereby giving us the opportunity -- first independently and later in enjoyable collaboration -- of using, and eventually of presenting, the Inform text adventure development system. -| *Roger Firth* -| *Wallingford, England* +| |FILL| *Roger Firth* +| |FILL| *Wallingford, England* -| *Sonja Kesserich* -| *Madrid, Spain* +| |FILL| *Sonja Kesserich* +| |FILL| *Madrid, Spain* -| *August 2004* +| |FILL| *August 2004* .. rubric:: Footnotes