Spec0.2 and Designers' Manual text versions uploaded


Sun, 19 Nov 1995 20:58:40 GMT

(Combination mail to Mr. Blasius and post to raif.)

I've uploaded the ASCII .txt versions of the Z-Machine Specification 0.2 and
the Inform Designers' Manual.

They were formatted on my Amiga while I was not-doing my numerical
computation assignment.

These are based on the output of dvi2tty (the DVI being generated by TeX
3.14159). The text pages don't necessarily have less than 66 lines
between form-feeds, in fact there's probably many that don't. This is
because Tex outputs assuming variable font size; DVI reliably spits this
out, but clearly you will fit less on a 80x66 fixed-font page than one
that uses Times.

In the DM, there are three special characters which may appear
differently on different people's computers:

ø In TeX output, this is a triangle; one means "technical aside",
and two means "really technical aside". I see it as a circle
with a slash through it. (naught)

» Is a bullet that appears before References and Exercises. I see it
as a french close-paren, ">>" in one character.

§ Is the section number. It looks like, well, a section number.

Of particular note in the DM is things that look like "hstuffi". Somehow,
DVI decided this was how it would represent italicized stuff. I tried to
catch them all and replace them with "[stuff]".

The files were uploaded in .txt format. I suggest those who have gzip
download them with the line

get Specification0.2.txt.gz

,,,
(. .)
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