• Manual

  • Command-Line Usage - A brief note on using Inform 7 at the command line.

  • Interacting with the GUI - A few notes on how the GUI apps should use the Inform command line.

  • Calling Inform from C - In 2021, Inform gained the ability to generate C code which could be used as part of a larger program, for example in a framework such as Unity.

  • Reference Card - The current help information as it would be printed at the command line.

  • Performance Metrics - Typical memory consumption, running time, and other statistics.

• Chapter 1: Delegation

  • Main - The command-line interface for the Inform 7 compiler tool.

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This program also incorporates the following web(s) as module(s):

• assertions - Dealing with top-level declarations in Inform source text.

• core - The core of the Inform compiler, as a module.

• if - The interactive-fiction specific layer of Inform, as a module.

• imperative - Compiling imperative code inside phrase or rule definitions.

• knowledge - Storing and reconciling the facts asserted by assertion sentences.

• multimedia - A multimedia extension module for Inform.

• runtime - Generating runtime support code for resources needed in Inform texts.

• values - Representing and parsing values, descriptions and conditions.

• inbuild/supervisor - The central part of the build manager.

• inter/building - An intermediate layer for building code in Inter.

• inter/bytecode - Dealing with intermediate-level Inform as bytecode in memory.

• inter/final - Final code generation from fully-processed Inter.

• inter/index - Generating the index for an Inform project.

• inter/pipeline - The code generation pipeline.

• services/arch - Definitions of Inter and final VM architectures.

• services/calculus - Storing and simplifying propositions in predicate calculus.

• services/html - Support for HTML problem, index and extension documentation pages.

• services/inflections - A library for adapting words or short phrases for linguistic purposes.

• services/kinds - The type system used by Inform.

• services/lexicon - A library of code to assign and retrieve meanings for excerpts of text.

• services/linguistics - A library of code to create grammatical categories of vocabulary.

• services/problems - The issuing mechanism for problem messages used by Inform.

• services/syntax - A library of code to build a parse tree and break text into sentences.

• services/words - A library of code for reading natural language into a stream of words.

• inweb/foundation - A library of utility functions for command-line tools.