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Contents

• Chapter 1: Control
  • 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.
• Chapter 2: 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
  • Plugin Calls- Giving compiler features the ability to install plugin functions.