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<h1 style="text-align:center">The Inform Designer's Manual</h1>
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<p style="font-size:large;text-align:center">Graham Nelson</p>
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<p style="font-style:italic;text-align:center">Fourth Edition 2001</p>
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<p>The Inform Designer's Manual, Fourth Edition</p>
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<p>Author: Graham Nelson<br>
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Editor: Gareth Rees<br>
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Proofreaders: Torbjörn Andersson, Toby Nelson, Andrew Plotkin<br>
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Printed edition managed by: David Cornelson</p>
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<p>Cover: <i>Wing of a Roller</i> (watercolour and gouache on vellum, 1512),<br>
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Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align:center">Notice of Copyright</h3>
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<p class="aside">Inform, the program and its source code, its example games and documentation,
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including the text and typography of this book, are copyright © Graham Nelson 1993,
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94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02.</p>
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<p class="aside">The Inform software may be freely distributed provided that: (a) distributed copies
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are not substantially different from those archived by the author, (b) this and other
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copyright messages are always retained in full, and (c) no profit is involved. The
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same conditions apply to distribution or conversion of any electronic form of this book
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which may be made available by the author. Exceptions to these conditions must be
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negotiated directly with the author.</p>
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<p class="aside">A story file produced with the Inform system belongs to whoever wrote it and may be
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sold for profit if so desired, without the need for royalty payment, provided that it prints
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a game banner conforming to the standard library's banner at an early stage in play: in
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particular, this banner must contain the information that the story file was compiled by
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Inform, and the version numbers of compiler and library used.</p>
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<p class="aside">The author assumes no liability for errors and omissions in this book, or for damages
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or loss of revenue resulting from the use of the information contained herein, or the use
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of any of the software described herein. Inform software is supplied "as is" and carries
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no warranty, actual or implied.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center">First edition September 1994<br>
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Second expanded edition October 1995<br>
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Third edition September 1996<br>
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Web edition with minor revisions May 1997<br>
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Fourth expanded edition May 2001: Release 4/2 (July 2001)</p>
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<p style="text-align:center">Published by The Interactive Fiction Library (IFLibrary.Org)<br>
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P.O. Box 3304, St. Charles, Illinois 60174<br>
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Printed in the United States of America<br>
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ISBN 0-9713119-0-0</p>
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