X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=ibg.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=about.rst;h=9cf8063c53c200cb9c55bba1895c2176982571dd;hp=222e34379baab49a81ddfb110ea6f67d35693b06;hb=88629eb252422d4b562d6970ab16c48dc94bb435;hpb=4fdc1023c4a964cafafa137b12ac5943f0241746 diff --git a/about.rst b/about.rst index 222e343..9cf8063 100644 --- a/about.rst +++ b/about.rst @@ -11,8 +11,14 @@ -- with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. -.. image:: /images/picT.png - :align: left +.. 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 @@ -90,9 +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*". @@ -199,11 +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.