X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=ibg.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=about.rst;h=9cf8063c53c200cb9c55bba1895c2176982571dd;hp=9c8f55e80e12152c179a1b5332b10b31e245acac;hb=88629eb252422d4b562d6970ab16c48dc94bb435;hpb=9e9feffd79cc1c4aa9c387afe98e16c7fbfae78d diff --git a/about.rst b/about.rst index 9c8f55e..9cf8063 100644 --- a/about.rst +++ b/about.rst @@ -96,18 +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*"; - -.. 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. + :samp:`print "{string}";` as meaning "display on the player's screen the arbitrary character or characters which are represented here by the placeholder *string*". @@ -214,11 +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.