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Title: Other Inform tools
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Author: Graham Nelson
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@ This is a miscellany of command-line tools, which vary in size and
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usefulness. Only //inblorb// is included in the GUI apps for Inform; the
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others are for building and maintenance. Note that the //intest// and
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//inweb// tools have their own repositories, and are not in the list here;
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nor is Inform 6, which is not a literate program.
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Unlike the compilers these tools are not modular, except that they all use
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the |foundation| library supplied by //inweb//.
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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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