From: David Griffith Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 03:50:42 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Add illuminated letters to some sections. X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=ibg.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4fdc1023c4a964cafafa137b12ac5943f0241746;hp=ff1002599fa503805513bdbc0985f1320115717b Add illuminated letters to some sections. --- diff --git a/about.rst b/about.rst index 7ba7ee0..222e343 100644 --- a/about.rst +++ b/about.rst @@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ -- with apologies to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. -Text adventures, otherwise known collectively as interactive fiction (IF), +.. image:: /images/picT.png + :align: left + +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 diff --git a/chapters/01.rst b/chapters/01.rst index cfbc00a..85b1d6b 100644 --- a/chapters/01.rst +++ b/chapters/01.rst @@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ | *A was an archer, who shot at a frog;* | *B was a butcher, who had a great dog.* -Before we start learning to use the Inform system, it's probably sensible +.. image:: /images/picB.png + :align: left + +efore we start learning to use the Inform system, it's probably sensible to consider briefly how IF, which has many narrative elements, differs from regular storytelling. Before we do *that*, though, let's look at an example of a familiar folk tale. diff --git a/chapters/02.rst b/chapters/02.rst index 933abae..69aa322 100644 --- a/chapters/02.rst +++ b/chapters/02.rst @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ | *C was a captain, all covered with lace;* | *D was a drunkard, and had a red face.* +.. image:: /images/picC.png + :align: left + Conventional -- static -- fiction can be written using nothing more than pencil and paper, or typewriter, or word-processor; however, the requirements for producing IF are a little more extensive, and the creative diff --git a/chapters/03.rst b/chapters/03.rst index 040aa8e..d9f2df1 100644 --- a/chapters/03.rst +++ b/chapters/03.rst @@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ | *E was an esquire, with pride on his brow;* | *F was a farmer, and followed the plough.* -Each of the three games in this guide is created step by step; you'll get +.. image:: /images/picE.png + :align: left + +ach of the three games in this guide is created step by step; you'll get most benefit (especially to begin with) if you take an active part, typing in the source code on your computer. Our first game, described in this chapter and the two which follow, tells this sentimental little story: diff --git a/chapters/04.rst b/chapters/04.rst index 1c326c4..7ca9cf3 100644 --- a/chapters/04.rst +++ b/chapters/04.rst @@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ | *G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck;* | *H was a hunter, and hunted a buck.* -Going through the design of our first game in the previous chapter has +.. image:: /images/picG.png + :align: left + +oing through the design of our first game in the previous chapter has introduced all sorts of Inform concepts, often without giving you much detail about what's been happening. So let's review some of what we've learnt so far, in a slightly more organised fashion. We'll talk about diff --git a/chapters/05.rst b/chapters/05.rst index 87b8988..138c850 100644 --- a/chapters/05.rst +++ b/chapters/05.rst @@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ | *I was an innkeeper, who loved to carouse;* | *J was a joiner, and built up a house.* -In even the simplest story, there's bound to be scope for the player to +.. image:: /images/picI.png + :align: left + +n even the simplest story, there's bound to be scope for the player to attempt activities that you hadn't anticipated. Sometimes there may be alternative ways of approaching a problem: if you can't be sure which approach the player will take, you really ought to allow for all diff --git a/foreword.rst b/foreword.rst index 047ea98..a40314b 100644 --- a/foreword.rst +++ b/foreword.rst @@ -2,29 +2,33 @@ Foreword by Graham Nelson =========================== -It would, I think, be immodest to compare myself to Charles Bourbaki -(1816--97), French hero of the Crimean War and renowned strategist, a man -offered nothing less as a reward than the throne of Greece (he declined). -It may be in order, though, to say a few words about his fictitious -relative Nicholas, the most dogged, lugubrious, interminably thorough and -clotted writer of textbooks ever to state a theorem. Rather the way -Hollywood credits movies for which nobody wants the blame to the director -"Alan Smithee" (who by now has quite a solid filmography and even gets the -occasional cinema festival), so in mathematics many small results are -claimed to be the work of Nicholas Bourbaki. Various stories are told of -the birth of Bourbaki, under whose name young Parisian mathematicians have -clubbed together since 1935 to write surveys of whole fields of algebra. -His initials, it may be noted, are NB. Some say "Bourbaki" was an in-joke -at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (much as "zork" and "foobar" were at MIT), -going right back to a practical joke in 1880 when a pupil successfully -impersonated a visiting "General Claude Bourbaki". Folklore also has it -that the real general was notorious when on manoeuvres for being able to -eat *anything* if need be -- stale biscuit, raw turnips, his horse, his -horse's hay, his horse's leather nosebag that the hay used to be in -- just -as Nicholas Bourbaki would have to eat everything there was to eat in the -theory of algebra, no matter how tooth-grinding or chewy. To give credit -where it's due, Bourbaki's forty volumes are quite useful. Or, actually, -they aren't, but it's nice to know they're there. +.. image:: /images/picI.png + :align: left + +t would, I think, be immodest to compare myself to Charles +Bourbaki (1816--97), French hero of the Crimean War and renowned +strategist, a man offered nothing less as a reward than the throne of +Greece (he declined). It may be in order, though, to say a few words +about his fictitious relative Nicholas, the most dogged, lugubrious, +interminably thorough and clotted writer of textbooks ever to state a +theorem. Rather the way Hollywood credits movies for which nobody wants +the blame to the director "Alan Smithee" (who by now has quite a solid +filmography and even gets the occasional cinema festival), so in +mathematics many small results are claimed to be the work of Nicholas +Bourbaki. Various stories are told of the birth of Bourbaki, under +whose name young Parisian mathematicians have clubbed together since +1935 to write surveys of whole fields of algebra. His initials, it may +be noted, are NB. Some say "Bourbaki" was an in-joke at the Ecole +Normale Supérieure (much as "zork" and "foobar" were at MIT), going +right back to a practical joke in 1880 when a pupil successfully +impersonated a visiting "General Claude Bourbaki". Folklore also has it +that the real general was notorious when on manoeuvres for being able to +eat *anything* if need be -- stale biscuit, raw turnips, his horse, his +horse's hay, his horse's leather nosebag that the hay used to be in -- +just as Nicholas Bourbaki would have to eat everything there was to eat +in the theory of algebra, no matter how tooth-grinding or chewy. To +give credit where it's due, Bourbaki's forty volumes are quite useful. +Or, actually, they aren't, but it's nice to know they're there. It was on reading this present book that I realised the melancholy truth: that my own volume on Inform, the *Designer's Manual*, is a Bourbaki. It