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Title: Other Inform tools
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: A documentation page.
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Language: C
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@ This is a miscellany of command-line tools, which vary in size and
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usefulness. Only one (the releasing agent |inblorb|) is included in the
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GUI apps for Inform; the others are for building and maintenance.
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These tools are not very modular: each consists of just a single web, but
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supplemented with a single module, the |foundation| library shared by
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every Inform tool.
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@ Users of the Inform GUI apps generally write and test their work inside
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the app, but eventually click Release to export a stand-alone program.
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|inblorb| is the tool which performs this releasing stage. It can package
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code up into a standard IF format known as a "blorb", whence the name, and
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can also make accompanying websites.
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@ |indoc| is a formatter for the two Inform manuals contained inside the
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GUI app and on the |www.inform7.com| website. This is a more complex task
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than may appear, since the manuals are indexed and interlinked in intricate
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ways, and share Examples.
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@ |inpolicy| is a lint-like tool for checking that the Inform source base
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complies with some self-imposed social norms.
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@ |inrtps| is a tiny tool which generates run-time-problem pages, the HTML
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pages displayed in the GUI app when various problems occur as the user
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tests something she has written.
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@ Note that the |intest| and |inweb| tools have their own repositories and
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source websites, and that the |inform6| compiler, which is illiterate and
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thus not a web, is not here either.
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