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Contents

• Chapter 1: Architecture
  Building Module - Setting up the use of this module.
  Large-Scale Structure - To manage the main, connectors and architecture packages of an Inter tree, together with its major building blocks: modules and their submodules.
  Inter Primitives - The standard set of primitive invocations available in Inter code as generated by the Inform tool-chain.
  Hierarchy Locations - Location and naming rules for resources to be compiled in an Inter hierarchy.
  Location Requirements - A way to express rules for the permitted places where inames and packages are allowed to appear in the Inter hierarchy.
  Translation - A way to express rules for how to translate names from the Inter namespace into the target language's namespace.
  Packaging - To manage references to Inter packages which may or may not yet exist.
  Inter Namespace - To manage references to Inter symbols which may or may not yet exist.
• Chapter 2: Blueprints
  Inter Schemas - Building an inter schema, a form of annotated syntax tree.
  Parsing Inter Schemas - A simple API for turning textual code written in Inform 6 syntax into an inter schema.
  Tokenisation - Turning textual code written in Inform 6 syntax into a linked list of tokens.
  Ramification - Turning textual code written in Inform 6 syntax into an inter schema.
  Inform 6 Operators - Order of precedence for Inform 6 operators, regarded as their Inter primitive equivalents.
  Emitting Inter Schemas - To compile Inter code following the model in an Inter schema tree.
  Identifier Finders - Suppose we have an identifier name, say BlkValueCreate, which we think refers to some symbol in an Inter tree. Where do we look for it?
• Chapter 3: Masonry
  Producing Inter - Convenient machinery for generating individual Inter instructions.
  Value Holsters - Representing compilation contexts, and holding compiled values.