X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=ibg.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=about.rst;h=aa6f5c93e5f24adfe6d2f7da6d6fba4b411a0d17;hp=ae816b9e731f76c6ae2b40182efc26fb9f97ced1;hb=b339390ab1a13e134841cb9b57c7259261c8561f;hpb=d102cdffefa7d68901d9f6e7d564656270bd0280 diff --git a/about.rst b/about.rst index ae816b9..aa6f5c9 100644 --- a/about.rst +++ b/about.rst @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ .. epigraph:: - | *If they asked me, I could write a book;* - | *About the way you TALK, and LISTEN; And LOOK.* + | |CENTER| *If they asked me, I could write a book;* + | |CENTER| *About the way you TALK, and LISTEN; And LOOK.* -- with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. @@ -58,13 +58,13 @@ Scope and approach Because this is only an introduction to Inform, many features are treated rather superficially, or ignored altogether. The definitive text is Graham -Nelson's Inform *Designer's Manual* (Fourth Edition, July 2001), commonly -known as the DM4; you cannot hope to use Inform successfully without having -this splendid book by your side. Our guide should be seen merely as a -supplement to the DM4, offering step-by-step descriptions of those aspects -of Inform which are most important on first acquaintance. In any matter -where we seem at odds with what Graham has written, you should assume that -he is right and that we are, well, confused. +Nelson's |DM4| (Fourth Edition, July 2001), commonly known as the DM4; you +cannot hope to use Inform successfully without having this splendid book by +your side. Our guide should be seen merely as a supplement to the DM4, +offering step-by-step descriptions of those aspects of Inform which are +most important on first acquaintance. In any matter where we seem at odds +with what Graham has written, you should assume that he is right and that +we are, well, confused. As a tutorial, this guide is intended to be printed out and then read sequentially; it isn't meant for online usage or designed as a reference @@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ locations: * http://www.inform-fiction.org/ The Inform home page, maintained by Graham Nelson and a small team of - helpers. Most important, this is where you can find the *Inform - Designer's Manual* in PDF format. + helpers. Most important, this is where you can find the |DM4| in PDF + format. * http://mirror.ifarchive.org/ @@ -222,13 +222,13 @@ for devising it all, thereby giving us the opportunity -- first independently and later in enjoyable collaboration -- of using, and eventually of presenting, the Inform text adventure development system. -| *Roger Firth* -| *Wallingford, England* +| |FILL| *Roger Firth* +| |FILL| *Wallingford, England* -| *Sonja Kesserich* -| *Madrid, Spain* +| |FILL| *Sonja Kesserich* +| |FILL| *Madrid, Spain* -| *August 2004* +| |FILL| *August 2004* .. rubric:: Footnotes