Chapter 1. 0Welcome to Inform
Chapter 2. 0The Source Text
Chapter 3. 0Things
Chapter 4. 0Kinds
Chapter 5. 0Text
Chapter 6. 0Descriptions
Chapter 7. 0Basic Actions
Chapter 8. 0Change
Chapter 9. 0Time
Chapter 10. Scenes
Chapter 11. Phrases
Chapter 12. Advanced Actions
Chapter 13. Relations
Chapter 14. Units
Chapter 15. Tables
Chapter 16. Understanding
Chapter 17. Activities

017.1. What are activities?
017.2. How activities work
017.3. Rules applied to activities
017.4. While clauses
017.5. New activities
017.6. Beginning and ending activities manually
017.7. Introduction to the list of built-in activities
017.8. Deciding the concealed possessions of something
017.9. Printing the name of something
17.10. Printing the plural name of something
17.11. Listing contents of something
17.12. Grouping together something
17.13. Printing room description details of something
17.14. Printing a refusal to act in the dark
17.15. Printing the announcement of darkness
17.16. Printing the name of a dark room
17.17. Printing the description of a dark room
17.18. Constructing the status line
17.19. Writing a paragraph about
17.20. Listing nondescript items of something
17.21. Deciding the scope of something
17.22. Clarifying the parser's choice of something
17.23. Asking which do you mean
17.24. Supplying a missing noun/second noun
17.25. Reading a command
17.26. Implicitly taking something
17.27. Printing a parser error
17.28. Deciding whether all includes
17.29. Printing the banner text
17.30. Printing the player's obituary
17.31. Amusing a victorious player
17.32. Starting the virtual machine

Chapter 18. Rulebooks
Chapter 19. Illustrations
Chapter 20. Publishing
Chapter 21. Extensions

Installed Extensions

Recipe Book

Alphabetical Index of Examples

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