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<ul><li><span class="unlink">home</span></li>
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</ul><h2>Compiler</h2><ul>
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<li><a href="structure.html">structure</a></li>
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<li><a href="inbuildn.html">inbuild</a></li>
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<li><a href="inform7n.html">inform7</a></li>
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<li><a href="intern.html">inter</a></li>
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<li><a href="services.html">services</a></li>
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<li><a href="secrets.html">secrets</a></li>
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</ul><h2>Other Tools</h2><ul>
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<li><a href="inblorbn.html">inblorb</a></li>
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<li><a href="indocn.html">indoc</a></li>
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<li><a href="inform6.html">inform6</a></li>
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<li><a href="inpolicyn.html">inpolicy</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/ganelson/inform"><img src="docs-assets/github.png" height=18> github</a></li>
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</ul><h2>Related Projects</h2><ul>
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<li><a href="../../inweb/index.html">inweb</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../intest/index.html">intest</a></li>
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<ul class="crumbs"><li><b>Inform: The Program</b></li></ul></div>
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP1" class="paragraph-anchor"></a>Inform is a programming language used for interactive fiction and other creative
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purposes. For user documentation, and downloads of the apps, go to the Inform home page
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at: <a href="http://www.inform7.com" class="external">http://www.inform7.com</a>
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</p>
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<p class="commentary">Most users engage with Inform as an app on their devices: there are apps
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for MacOS, Windows, Linux and Android, but in the centre of each is the same
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core compiler and software. This website is part of the Github repository for
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that core, which is written as a "literate program", meaning that it is compiled
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both to a "woven", human-readable version as well as a "tangled",
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computer-executable version. You are now reading the woven version. For more on
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literate programming, go to the tool used by the Inform project: <a href="../../inweb/index.html" class="internal">inweb</a>
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</p>
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<p class="commentary">Like all complex software systems, Inform is an assemblage of many individual
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programs, images, PDF files, sets of test cases, documentation, and so on.
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This page is intended as a jumping-off point for browsing the source code and
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technical documentation: it doesn't list every last thing.
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</p>
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<ul class="items"><li>● At the heart of Inform are the first four links below, making up its main
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compiler. See <a href="structure.html" class="internal">structure</a> for how they fit together.
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</li><li>● Several important <a href="kits.html" class="internal">kits</a> and <a href="extensions.html" class="internal">extensions</a> used by Inform are also written as
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literate programs.
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<a href="inbuildn.html"><img src="docs-assets/inbuild.jpg" alt="Inbuild" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="inbuildn.html">inbuild</a></h3>
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<p>A stand-alone build manager which is also Stage 1 of the Inform compiler.</p>
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<div class="w3-quarter">
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<a href="inform7n.html"><img src="docs-assets/inform7.jpg" alt="Inform 7" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="inform7n.html">inform7</a></h3>
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<p>The core Inform compiler, containing Stages 2 to 5.</p>
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<a href="intern.html"><img src="docs-assets/inter.jpg" alt="Inter" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="intern.html">inter</a></h3>
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<p>A stand-alone tool for intermediate-level code, which is also
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Stages 6 and 7 of the Inform compiler.</p>
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<a href="services.html"><img src="docs-assets/services.jpg" alt="Services" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="services.html">services</a></h3>
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<p>Support for predicate calculus, linguistics, syntax trees and more.</p>
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<a href="inblorbn.html"><img src="docs-assets/inblorb.jpg" alt="Inblorb" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="inblorbn.html">inblorb</a></h3>
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<p>A packaging tool for wrapping interactive fiction story files,
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included with the Inform apps.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="w3-quarter">
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<a href="inform6.html"><img src="docs-assets/inform6.jpg" alt="Inform 6" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="inform6.html">inform6</a></h3>
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<p>A compiler for a low-level programming language,
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included with the Inform apps.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="w3-quarter">
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<a href="indocn.html"><img src="docs-assets/indoc.jpg" alt="Indoc" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="indocn.html">indoc</a></h3>
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<p>A tool for typesetting the two books about Inform, and their hundreds
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of examples, as ebooks or mini-websites, such as the one built into the apps.</p>
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</div>
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<a href="inpolicyn.html"><img src="docs-assets/inpolicy.jpg" alt="Inpolicy" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="inpolicyn.html">inpolicy</a></h3>
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<p>A small tool for checking that the Inform source base complies
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with some self-imposed social norms.</p>
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</div>
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<a href="../../inweb/inweb/index.html"><img src="docs-assets/inweb.jpg" alt="Inweb" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="../../inweb/inweb/index.html">inweb</a></h3>
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<p>A literate-programming tool needed to build the other Inform tools.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="w3-quarter">
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<a href="../../intest/intest/index.html"><img src="docs-assets/intest.jpg" alt="Intest" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="../../intest/intest/index.html">intest</a></h3>
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<p>A tool for running complex suites of end-to-end tests to verify the
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correctness of other tools.</p>
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<div class="w3-quarter">
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<a href="../../inweb/foundation-module/index.html">
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<img src="docs-assets/services.jpg" alt="Foundation" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="../../inweb/foundation-module/index.html">foundation</a></h3>
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<p>File-handling, generating HTML, semantic version-numbering,
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string-handling, memory management, and so on.</p>
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