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<p class="purpose">The core of the Inform compiler, as a module. This is version 1.</p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Preliminaries</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">What This Module Does</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">An overview of the core module's role and abilities.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 1: Control</span></p>
<p class="chapterpurpose">Managing the production line for the compilation process.</p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Core Module</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Setting up the use of this module.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Class Predeclarations</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Predeclaring the classes used in the six central Inform modules.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">What To Compile</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">To receive an instruction to compile something from Inbuild, and then to sort out the many locations then used in the host filing system.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">How To Compile</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">The long production line on which products of Inform are built, one step at a time.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Core Preform</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">To load, optimise and throw problem messages related to Preform syntax.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Progress Percentages</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">This tiny section, the Lichtenstein of Inform, prints percentage of completion estimates so that the host application can intercept them and update its graphical progress bar.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Compilation Settings</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Settings affecting the compilation of the current project.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Inform-Only Nodes and Annotations</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">How Inform extends and annotates the syntax tree.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Internal Test Cases</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Handling requests to compile internal tests.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Gitignoring</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Automatically creating or updating gitignore files within Inform projects, so that can be put under version control with git more easily.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 2: Problem Messages</span></p>
<p class="chapterpurpose">The issuing of Problem messages.</p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Using Problems</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Interface to the Problems module.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Supplementary Quotes</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">More things to quote in problem messages.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Supplementary Issues</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Some supplementary general sorts of problem message.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Problems With Source Text</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Errors with the source text, either lexical issues or major syntactic ones, are found when Inbuild reads the text in: what this section does is to collect and issue those errors as tidy Inform problem messages.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Calculus Problems</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Errors with formulating logical statements are sometimes caught by the calculus module: this section collects and issues such errors as tidy Inform problems.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Kinds Problems</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Errors in setting up kinds and how they multiply are sometimes caught by the kinds module: this section collects and issues such errors as tidy Inform problems.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 3: Plugins</span></p>
<p class="chapterpurpose">Extensions to the main compiler, which can be either active or inactive.</p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Plugin Calls</span></a> -
<span class="sectionpurpose">Giving compiler features the ability to install plugin functions.</span></p>
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