X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=ibg.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=chapters%2F02.rst;h=1d400174ff3edc46ae654edc6230536e11362534;hp=af3f045d06618ff5b87dddb9a09e526b99a49185;hb=4381288eeb792adb3672ef747013c02815fa760a;hpb=4261ff48a6357e2af0957f5e1b88bdc022243d16 diff --git a/chapters/02.rst b/chapters/02.rst index af3f045..1d40017 100644 --- a/chapters/02.rst +++ b/chapters/02.rst @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ is a "text" (or "ASCII") file containing words and phrases which can be read -- admittedly after a little tuition, which is what this guide is all about -- by humans. +.. Generated by autoindex +.. index:: + single: IBM PC + pair: NotePad; text editor + How do you create that source file? Using a third software program: an :term:`editor`. However, unlike the compiler and interpreter, this program isn't dedicated to the Inform system -- or even to IF. An editor is an @@ -130,6 +135,10 @@ write an Inform adventure game: because it's a binary file not meaningful to human eyes, neatly discourages players from cheating). +.. Generated by autoindex +.. index:: + single: IF Archive + All of those, apart from the editor, can be downloaded for free from the IF Archive. One approach is to fetch them individually, following the guidance on Graham's page: visit http://www.inform-fiction.org/ and look @@ -334,6 +343,10 @@ can stay the same in each ``.bat`` file that you create. .. rubric:: Getting a better editor +.. Generated by autoindex +.. index:: + pair: NotePad; text editor + Although NotePad is adequate when you're getting started, you'll find life much easier if you obtain a more powerful editor program. We recommend TextPad, available as shareware from http://www.textpad.com/; in addition, @@ -524,6 +537,10 @@ Follow these steps: .. rubric:: Setting file associations +.. Generated by autoindex +.. index:: + single: Infocom + The business of first starting the interpreter, and then locating the story file that you want to play, is clumsy and inconvenient. Fortunately, when the system first "sees" the Zoom interpreter (which is a nice Aqua @@ -731,6 +748,10 @@ with these mistakes, and about controlling how the compiler behaves, in .. rubric:: More about the interpreter +.. Generated by autoindex +.. index:: + single: Infocom + One of the big advantages of the way Inform works is that a compiled game -- the Z-code story file -- is portable between different computers. That's not just from one PC to another: exactly the same story file will