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(Documentation/Publishing) Document how to get the latest version of Parchment
Essentially, download and unzip http://github.com/curiousdannii/parchment/zipball/inform7
Then copy the Parchment folder to your Inform library Templates folder.0 votesThe website has been updated to include this information; the Documentation still needs revision.
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(Multimedia) Allow figure-names to be defined by table
As the author of a number of multimedia extensions for I7, I've heard from a couple of users asking whether there is a briefer way to assign figure names to image files. As I'm working on a WIP that currently has well more than 100 defined figures, I understand why they'd want that. The standard syntax works well for a handful of figures, but there is a lot of extraneous typing when the number of figures goes beyond that. Would it be possible to allow figures (and perhaps sounds) to be defined using special-purpose tables? A simple Table of Figures…
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(Debugging) Exportable walkthroughs/test me scripts
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don't use much the skein or transcript concept, but I find the "test me"
command very useful. I'd like to be able to keep it after the release of the
game, or convert the command into a "walkthrough" option, which could either
display the whole solution, only a part of it, or replay the game
automatically (useful for testing a game with different interpreters). At the
moment I must export all the "test me" commands, clean up the code, and use it
with the replay command.0 votesWe’ll see whether this is possible.
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(Index/IDE) Provide a pre-generated index available before the first compile
Currently when you first create a project, the index is empty. It would be nice for users to be able to explore this and especially to have access to the phrasebook right from the outset.
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(Syntax) Replace "if we have" syntax
For "if we have..." tense-conditions to be replaced by some other syntax, because authors are confused by who this "we" might be, and/or wish they could say "if the player has...".
0 votesWe are considering this and may implement it, though it should be noted that then the seductively similar “if Mrs Wandering-Monster has…” would look as if it ought to work – but there is nothing like enough run-time storage in the Z-machine for this sort of complete historical record.
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(IDE) Command-clicking in the contents pane to view a section
For a command-click in the contents pane to take the user to the
selected portion of the source, but without restricting the view only to that
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(Output/Printing) More ways to control printing of groups
Currently if we have a number of instances of a kind (A block is a kind of thing. Two blocks are in the kitchen.), the grouping activity does not allow one to override the description of these objects, though it would if the blocks had individual names. Moreover, it would be nice to be able to get the number of items being grouped together and manipulate that information.
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Allow initials in extension author names
As I understand there is a technical reason why one cannot write something like:
New Extension by "John X. Doe" begins here.
But it'd be nice if we could look for a workaround. I often use my middle initial for disambiguation purposes, but I feel a little pretentious writing my full middle name. In any case, it seems odd that story authors may have initials, but extension authors may not.
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(Parsing) Ability to understand something as a varying thing or value
The appointed time is a time which varies.
Understand "appointment" as the appointed time.This seems doable, because the time token just returns the parsed time. It
could return a computed value just as well as a constant one. It's more
complicated with objects, but it could be done. The following:The suspect is a person which varies.
Understand "suspect" as the suspect....could be internally rephrased as:
Understand "suspect" as a person when the item described is the suspect.
0 votesThis may be tricky; we will see.
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At some level this has already happened; in others, it remains in progress. The Syntax Document available from the Inform website has for some time offered an overview of phrases and assertion syntax; that is now being overtaken by improvements to the Index inside Inform. This is something we continue to work on improving, and the challenge is to create better and better resources though the language itself continues to evolve.
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