Contents

| Writing with Inform

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. Numbers and Equations
Chapter 15. Tables
Chapter 16. Understanding
Chapter 17. Activities
Chapter 18. Rulebooks

018.1. On rules
018.2. Named rules and rulebooks
018.3. New rules
018.4. Listing rules explicitly
018.5. Sorting and indexing of rules
018.6. The preamble of a rule
018.7. New rulebooks
018.8. Basis of a rulebook
018.9. Rulebook variables
18.10. Success and failure
18.11. Named outcomes
18.12. Rulebooks producing values
18.13. Consider and abide
18.14. Procedural rules
18.15. Phrases concerning rules
18.16. Consider is not the same as follow
18.17. Two rulebooks used internally
18.18. The Laws for Sorting Rulebooks
18.19. Review of Chapter 18: Rulebooks

Chapter 19. Advanced Text
Chapter 20. Lists
Chapter 21. Advanced Phrases
Chapter 22. Figures, Sounds and Files
Chapter 23. Releasing
Chapter 24. Publishing
Chapter 25. Extensions
Chapter 26. What's New in Inform?

Installed Extensions

Alphabetical Index of Examples
Numerical Index of Examples

The Inform Recipe Book

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