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Starting an interactive-fiction project in Inform 7: what the Source Text chapter says
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What this guide covers
For writers new to Inform 7 who want an overview of how a project's source text is built. It follows the manual's chapter on assertions, rules, punctuation, headings and testing commands. The steps are the curator's reading of the manual; nothing was installed, compiled or run.
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Starting an interactive-fiction project in Inform 7: what the Source Text chapter says
Coverage
For writers new to Inform 7 who want an overview of how a project's source text is built. It follows the manual's chapter on assertions, rules, punctuation, headings and testing commands. The steps are the curator's reading of the manual; nothing was installed, compiled or run.
Useful starting points
- The manual says a full stop also ends a sentence inside quotation marks, so stray punctuation can change what the source means.
- A repeated Problem message in one run is shortened, so read the first occurrence for the full explanation.
- A test script needs a one-word name, and typing the test command alone lists the scripts the story knows.
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