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<h1><a href="index.html">
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<ul><li><span class="unlink">home</span></li>
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<li><a href="compiler.html">structure</a></li>
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<li><a href="services.html">services</a></li>
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<li><a href="other.html">other tools</a></li>
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<li><a href="extensions.html">extensions and kits</a></li>
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</ul><h2>Repository</h2><ul>
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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/docs/index.html">inweb</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../intest/docs/index.html">intest</a></li>
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<!--Weave of 'Inform: The Program' generated by Inweb-->
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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. Most users engage with it 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.
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</p>
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<ul class="items"><li>● 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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</li><li>● To download the source for the core compiler, build it, and run it at the command
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line rather than through the apps, go to the main GitHub repository
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at: <a href="https://github.com/ganelson/inform" class="external">https://github.com/ganelson/inform</a>
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</li><li>● Inform is a set of "literate programs", written as "webs" of
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source code designed to be read by humans (in "woven" form), as well as
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executed by computers (in "tangled" form). For more on literate programming,
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go to the tool used by the Inform project: <a href="../../inweb/docs/index.html" class="internal">inweb</a>
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</li></ul>
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP2" class="paragraph-anchor"></a>Inform is not a single program. There are around 50 webs in all, together
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with some images, PDF files, sets of test cases, documentation, and so on.
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This page is intended as a jumping-off point to navigate these.
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</p>
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<a href="compiler.html"><img src="docs-assets/inbuild.jpg" alt="Inbuild" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="compiler.html">inbuild</a></h3>
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<p>A stand-alone build manager which is also Stage I of the Inform compiler.</p>
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<div class="w3-quarter">
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<a href="compiler.html"><img src="docs-assets/inform7.jpg" alt="Inform 7" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="compiler.html">inform7</a></h3>
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<p>The core Inform compiler.</p>
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<a href="compiler.html"><img src="docs-assets/inter.jpg" alt="Inter" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="compiler.html">inter</a></h3>
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<p>A stand-alone tool for intermediate-level code, which is
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also Stages VI and VII 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, abstract syntax trees and
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other facilities needed by the compiler tools.</p>
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<img src="docs-assets/inblorb.jpg" alt="Inblorb" style="width:100%">
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<h3>inblorb</h3>
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<p>A packaging tool for wrapping interactive fiction story files,
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included with the Inform apps but not as a part of the inform7 executable.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="w3-quarter">
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<a href="compiler.html"><img src="docs-assets/inform6.jpg" alt="Inform 6" style="width:100%"></a>
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<h3><a href="compiler.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 but not as a part of the inform7 executable.</p>
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<img src="docs-assets/ext.jpg" alt="Basic Inform" style="width:100%">
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<h3>Basic Inform</h3>
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<p>The Inform 7 extension read automatically into every project,
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defining much of the language.</p>
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<img src="docs-assets/ifext.jpg" alt="Standard Rules" style="width:100%">
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<h3>Standard Rules</h3>
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<p>The Inform 7 extension read automatically into every interactive
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fiction project, defining much of the world model.</p>
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<img src="docs-assets/kit.jpg" alt="BasicInformKit" style="width:100%">
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<h3>BasicInformKit</h3>
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<p>A kit of Inter code providing runtime support for all programs written
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with Inform. Included with the apps in precompiled form.</p>
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<img src="docs-assets/kit.jpg" alt="BasicInformExtrasKit" style="width:100%">
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<h3>BasicInformExtrasKit</h3>
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<p>A kit of Inter code providing runtime support for all programs not using
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WorldModelKit. Included with the apps in precompiled form.</p>
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<img src="docs-assets/ifkit.jpg" alt="WorldModelKit" style="width:100%">
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<h3>WorldModelKit</h3>
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<p>A kit of Inter code providing runtime support for interactive fiction
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projects with a simulated world. Included with the apps in precompiled form.</p>
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<img src="docs-assets/ifkit.jpg" alt="CommandParserKit" style="width:100%">
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<h3>CommandParserKit</h3>
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<p>A kit of Inter code providing runtime support for interactive fiction
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projects with a command parser interface. Included with the apps in precompiled form.</p>
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<h3>indoc</h3>
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<p>A tool for typesetting the two books about Inform, and their hundreds
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of examples, so that these are readable in the apps. Needed by Inform
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(and Inform website) maintainers, but not end users.</p>
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<img src="docs-assets/inpolicy.jpg" alt="Inpolicy" style="width:100%">
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<h3>inpolicy</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. Needed by Inform maintainers, but not end users.</p>
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<img src="docs-assets/inrtps.jpg" alt="Inrtps" style="width:100%">
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<h3>inrtps</h3>
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<p>A small tool for formatting the run-time problem displays included
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with the Inform apps. Needed by Inform maintainers, but not end users.</p>
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<h3>inweb</h3>
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<p>A literate-programming tool needed to build the other Inform tools.
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Needed by Inform maintainers, but not end users.</p>
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<h3>intest</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. Needed by Inform maintainers, but not end users.</p>
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<h3>foundation</h3>
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<p>A module of basic computing services used across all of the Inform
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tool-chain: file-handling, generating HTML, semantic version-numbering,
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string-handling, memory management.</p>
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