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From: as544@torfree.net (Tim Middleton)
Subject: Inform Manual Format
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:39:31 GMT
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I stubbled across the IF archives last week, and was pretty thrilled. I 
ftp'd megs and megs of junk <G> (good junk!) and have been looking it all 
over.

I like Inform quite a lot and have been playing with it for the last few 
days. (And liking it more all the time).

My problem is the TEX format manuals. I am a lowly DOS user and I 
scarcely have any knowledge of TEX--and certainly no way I know of to 
display, print or convert it to a format known to me. I have been using 
the one "designer's manual" that has been dumped to ascii by some 
ruthless machine. It's a whole lot better than nothing, of course, and 
i've surely learned a lot from it. However I'm wondering if anyone has, 
or if anyone *can*, convert them to some other format.. RTF (rich text 
format) comes to mind.

Graham, if you are reading this... GREAT JOB! I just wish I had your 
manuals in a format I could read to speed up the learning process a bit.

Oh well, I guess I can look at deciphering the ascii manual, and the 
companion TEX manuals as a sort of (demented) text adventure in thier own 
respecive rites! ha.

tim.middleton@canrem.com or as544@torfree.net




