X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=ibg.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=about.rst;h=32e58f2b31b423c7169e49d92c7244a6eb58284f;hp=84c443718842cac287cda73f83b0c56503b386ac;hb=e8dbf1d94ca77a896be074405b94f5f0be8c5abc;hpb=32e6323676b92eb33f4d8300e790003303be3cc1 diff --git a/about.rst b/about.rst index 84c4437..32e58f2 100644 --- a/about.rst +++ 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 @@ -91,6 +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:: @@ -196,11 +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?). - All credit to the generosity of http://briefcase.yahoo.com/ for making international file-sharing such a breeze.