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
Chapter 19. Advanced Text
Chapter 20. Lists
Chapter 21. Advanced Phrases
Chapter 22. Figures, Sounds and Files

022.1. Beyond text
022.2. How IF views pictures
022.3. Virtual machines and story file formats
022.4. Gathering the figures
022.5. Declaring and previewing the figures
022.6. Displaying the figures
022.7. Recorded sounds
022.8. Declaring and playing back sounds
022.9. Some technicalities about figures and sounds
22.10. Files
22.11. Declaring files
22.12. Writing and reading tables to external files
22.13. Writing, reading and appending text to files
22.14. Exchanging files with other programs

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

Click the black triangle again to close the detailed contents list, or click on a section's name to go to it.