Preliminaries

• What This Module Does - An overview of the core module's role and abilities.

Chapter 1: Control

Managing the production line for the compilation process.

• Core Module - Setting up the use of this module.

• Class Predeclarations - Predeclaring the classes used in the six central Inform modules.

• What To Compile - To receive an instruction to compile something from Inbuild, and then to sort out the many locations then used in the host filing system.

• How To Compile - The long production line on which products of Inform are built, one step at a time.

• Core Preform - To load, optimise and throw problem messages related to Preform syntax.

• Progress Percentages - 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.

• Compilation Settings - Settings affecting the compilation of the current project.

• Inform-Only Nodes and Annotations - How Inform extends and annotates the syntax tree.

• Internal Test Cases - Handling requests to compile internal tests.

• Gitignoring - Automatically creating or updating gitignore files within Inform projects, so that can be put under version control with git more easily.

Chapter 2: Problem Messages

The issuing of Problem messages.

• Using Problems - Interface to the Problems module.

• Supplementary Quotes - More things to quote in problem messages.

• Supplementary Issues - Some supplementary general sorts of problem message.

• Problems With Source Text - 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.

• Calculus Problems - Errors with formulating logical statements are sometimes caught by the calculus module: this section collects and issues such errors as tidy Inform problems.

• Kinds Problems - 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.

Chapter 3: Plugins

Extensions to the main compiler, which can be either active or inactive.

• Plugin Calls - Giving compiler features the ability to install plugin functions.