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

012.1. A recap of actions
012.2. How actions are processed
012.3. Giving instructions to other people
012.4. Persuasion
012.5. Unsuccessful attempts
012.6. Spontaneous actions by other people
012.7. New actions
012.8. Irregular English verbs
012.9. Check, carry out, report
12.10. Action variables
12.11. Making actions work for other people
12.12. Check rules for actions by other people
12.13. Report rules for actions by other people
12.14. Actions for any actor
12.15. Out of world actions
12.16. Reaching inside and reaching outside rules
12.17. Visible vs touchable vs carried
12.18. Changing reachability
12.19. Changing visibility
12.20. Stored actions
12.21. Guidelines on how to write rules about 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
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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