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Title: Overview
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Author: Graham Nelson
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@ This is the home page for the source code for the Inform 7 programming
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language. For the language itself, its documentation, and downloads of the
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apps for different platforms, see: http://www.inform7.com
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Almost everything here is a "web", or "literate program", powered by //inweb//.
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Those new to literate programming may want first to try the modest examples
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there (say, //goldbach//), and skim the //inweb// manual.
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These pages host "woven", human-readable, forms of the source and are intended
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for browsing. To obtain and build the software, or to see resources which
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are not webs and thus not here, see: https://github.com/ganelson/inform
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@ The Inform 7 compiler comes with a large penumbra of supporting resources,
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so there are around 50 webs in this repository:
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(a) The compiler is built from around 20 modules, plus three front-end command
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line tools controlling them. See //compiler// for a map.
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(b) See //other// for command-line tools useful for building or working with
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Inform, but not involving compilation: //inblorb//, a packager; //indoc//, to
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format documentation; //inpolicy//, a lint-like tool for checking Inform's
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source code; and //inrtps//, to format run-time problem messages.
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(c) The extensions "Basic Inform" (//basic_inform//) and "Standard Rules"
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(//standard_rules//), together with a number of "kits" of precompiled Inter
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code: see //extensions//.
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(d) Small unit-test tools to exercise the modules mentioned in (a): see //units//.
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@ Three webs are conspicuously missing, but only because they are on similar
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mini-websites on other Github repositories:
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(a) //inweb// itself, and its function library, //foundation//, which all of
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the Inform tools use;
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(b) the testing utility //intest//, which has a repository of its own.
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