Inform Manual: Please Suggest Exercises


25 Aug 95 11:00:21 GMT

As I have promised for some time now, the new version of the Inform
Designer's Manual is coming soon. I believe it's a lot better
organised, and has a good deal more reference material, a detailed
(paragraph-level) contents and so on.

I'm also increasing the number of "exercises" (i.e., examples of
how to do difficult things, because there are solutions for every
exercise). It would be good to hear from Inform users if there
are any particular things they'd like to see exercises on. I
do watch rec.arts.int-fiction and steal the odd suggestion from
there...

Feel free to propose something fiendish - part of the idea of the
exercises is to show how the system can be made to work hard for
its living. If you already have a solution, feel free to send that
as well, but don't feel you need to - I'm perfectly happy with
"How can I do this?" questions.

I can't promise everything suggested will be included - but I'll
try hard to include anything not essentially already there in the
text.

Replies by email, if possible, please. Thanks in advance to anyone
taking the time to help,

Graham Nelson
Oxford, UK