X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=ibg.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=about.rst;h=32e58f2b31b423c7169e49d92c7244a6eb58284f;hp=a1af7f9c1ee4408fc88254768d2e234cb7bab1ba;hb=e8dbf1d94ca77a896be074405b94f5f0be8c5abc;hpb=f68b82bdb2f596bfa811693302a8980ae46dff14 diff --git a/about.rst b/about.rst index a1af7f9..32e58f2 100644 --- a/about.rst +++ b/about.rst @@ -1,7 +1,3 @@ -.. raw:: latex - - \newpage - ================== About this guide ================== @@ -104,6 +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:: @@ -209,11 +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.