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Contents

• Chapter 1: Starting Up
  • Index Module - Setting up the use of this module.
  • Index Stage - A pipeline stage for generating the index of an Inform project.
  • Indexing API - How the parent tool can ask for an Inter tree to be indexed.
• Chapter 2: Utilities
  • Index Locations - To provide routines to help build the various HTML index files, none of which are actually created in this section.
  • Index Interpreter - An index is generated by interpreting an index structure file.
  • Styles and Scripts - CSS and Javascripts embedded into the body of index pages.
  • Index Utilities - Miscellaneous utility functions for producing index content.
  • Index Rules - Utility functions for indexing rules, rulebooks and activities.
  • Lexicon (index) - A lexicon for nouns, adjectives and verbs found in an Inter tree.
  • Faux Instances - Some of the more complicated indexing tasks need to build data structures cross-referencing the instance packages in the Inter tree: the spatial map, in particular. For convenience, we create faux-instance objects for them, which partly correspond to the instance objects in the original compiler.
  • Faux Scenes - Creating a simple graph of scenes, ends and connectors.
• Chapter 3: Elements
  • The Periodic Table - The index is divided up into 'elements'.
  • Alphabetic Element - To write the Alphabetic actions element (A2) in the index.
  • Arithmetic Element - To write the Arithmetic element (Ar) in the index.
  • Behaviour Element - To write the Behaviour element (Bh) in the index.
  • Card Element - To write the Library Card element (Cd) in the index.
  • Chart Element - To write the Chart element (Ch) in the index.
  • Commands Element - To write the Commands element (Cm) in the index.
  • Contents Element - To write the Contents element (C) in the index.
  • Events Element - To write the Events element (Ev) in the index.
  • Extras Element - To write the Extras element (Xt) in the index.
  • Figures Element - To write the Figures element (Fi) in the index.
  • Gazetteer Element - To write the Gazetteer element (Gz) in the index.
  • Grouped Element - To write the Grouped actions element (A1) in the index, and also the detailed per-action pages linked from it.
  • Innards Element - To write the Innards element (In) in the index.
  • Lexicon Element - To write the Lexicon element (Lx) in the index.
  • Map Element - To write the Map element (Mp) in the index.
  • Phrasebook Element - To write the Phrasebook element (Pb) in the index.
  • Plot Element - To write the Plot element (Pl) in the index.
  • Relations Element - To write the Relations element (Rl) in the index.
  • Rules for Scenes Element - To write the Rules for Scenes element (RS) in the index.
  • Standards Element - To write the Standards element (St) in the index.
  • Tables Element - To write the Tables element (Tb) in the index.
  • Tokens Element - To write the Tokens element (To) in the index.
  • Values Element - To write the Values element (Vl) in the index.
  • Verbs Element - To write the Verbs element (Vb) in the index.
• Chapter 4: Spatial Mapping
  • Map Configuration - To manage configuration parameters for the EPS and HTML maps.
  • Spatial Geometry - Simple mathematical functions for dealing with vectors and cuboids in a three-dimensional integer lattice.
  • Spatial Map - To fit the map of the rooms in the game into a cubical grid, preserving distances and angles where possible, and so to give each room approximate coordinate locations.
  • Render HTML Map - To render the spatial map of rooms as HTML.
  • Render EPS Map - To render the spatial map of rooms as an EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) file.