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The Linux app doesn't currently have a launcher window that can display these pages, but I'm working on one. In advance of that, here are Linux versions of the advice pages. I also found that 'make integration' didn't install the welcome banner for the launcher window, nor one of the assets needed for the advice pages, so this also patches the make script to do so.
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59 lines
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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<html>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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{include-css}
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<style type="text/css">
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.red
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\{
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color:rgb(255,0,0);
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\}
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</style>
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<title>Materials Folder</title>
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<body>
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<p><span class="headingpaneltext">Materials Folder</span></p>
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<p>Every project has a ".materials" folder, which is always stored next to it on disc. (Use Ctrl+Shift+M to show the current project's .materials in the Files app.) This diagram shows how the .materials folder would look for a project which used it in every possible way. In practice, this is very unlikely.</p>
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<img src="MaterialsDiagram.png" width="275" height="403"/>
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<p>Project (<span class="red">1</span>) and .materials folder (<span class="red">2</span>) live side by side in the Files app: everything else here is inside .materials (<span class="red">2</span>). The author of this story decided that it should be given to players along with a PDF booklet (<span class="red">3</span>), by including this Release instruction in the source text:
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<blockquote>
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Release along with a file of "A Guide to Arboreal Fauna" called "A Guide to Arboreal Fauna.pdf".
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</blockquote>
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<p>Every released project needs cover art. Authors have to provide two files, full-sized at 960 by 960 (<span class="red">4</span>) and reduced at 120 by 120 (<span class="red">18</span>): they can either be "Cover.jpg" and "Small Cover.jpg" or "Cover.png" and "Small Cover.png".</p>
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<p>Extensions to Inform are usually centrally installed, and available to all projects. But this project has its own private copy of "Feeding Squirrels by Emily Short" (<span class="red">7</span>), in its own private Extensions folder (<span class="red">5</span>). This would override any installed copy of the same extension. It has to have the correct name and .i7x ending, and it has to live inside a folder with its author's name (<span class="red">6</span>).</p>
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<p>Projects which include pictures as well as text need to store the necessary images, in JPEG or PNG format, in the Figures folder (<span class="red">8</span>). This one was declared in the source text like so:</p>
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Figure of Red Admiral Butterfly is the file "butterfly.jpg".
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</blockquote>
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<p>Sound effects are similar, use AIFF or OGG format, and live in Sounds (<span class="red">19</span>). There's one here (<span class="red">20</span>), declared by:</p>
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Sound of Rustling Leaves is the file "Rustling Leaves.aiff".
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</blockquote>
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<p>Projects which read or write files of data as they play should have a Files folder (<span class="red">10</span>) to hold these. This one (<span class="red">11</span>) was declared by:
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<blockquote>
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The File of Nut Storage Locations is called "nutstorage".
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</blockquote>
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<p>Now for some expert-only features which hardly anybody needs in practice. The I6T folder (<span class="red">12</span>) provides extra template files (<span class="red">13</span>), or indeed replacement ones (<span class="red">14</span>), and allows a project to include substantial portions of raw Inform 6 code. The Languages folder (<span class="red">16</span>) is for experimenting with language bundles, a feature still in its early stages. The Templates folder (<span class="red">21</span>) is for providing the project with a non-standard Javascript engine, called an "interpreter", when it's released as a website. Here there's an intepreter called "Experimental" (<span class="red">22</span>) which can be selected by putting this into the source:</p>
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<blockquote>
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Release along with the "Experimental" interpreter.
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</blockquote>
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<p>And that just leaves the Release folder (<span class="red">17</span>). Inform creates this automatically if the project's Release button is clicked, and then writes into it whatever will eventually go out to players. So never store anything permanent here: it's intended to be just a holding area.
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</p>
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<hr style="margin-top: 18px;">
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</body>
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