X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=ibg.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=about.rst;h=9cf8063c53c200cb9c55bba1895c2176982571dd;hp=13b4b0b4fe44b69ec0d2495d0b0b287045232191;hb=88629eb252422d4b562d6970ab16c48dc94bb435;hpb=056d415c5a40209963cb26f45458ca8c73d02f5e diff --git a/about.rst b/about.rst index 13b4b0b..9cf8063 100644 --- a/about.rst +++ b/about.rst @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ About this guide ================== +.. highlight:: inform6 + .. epigraph:: | *If they asked me, I could write a book;* @@ -9,7 +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 @@ -85,9 +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*". @@ -194,11 +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?). - All credit to the generosity of http://briefcase.yahoo.com/ for making international file-sharing such a breeze.