The Inform Recipe Book

Chapter 1. 0How to Use The Recipe Book
Chapter 2. 0Adaptive Prose
Chapter 3. 0Place
Chapter 4. 0Time and Plot
Chapter 5. 0The Viewpoint Character
Chapter 6. 0Commands

06.1. Designing New Commands
06.2. Writing New Commands
06.3. Modifying Existing Commands
06.4. Looking
06.5. Examining
06.6. Looking Under and Hiding
06.7. Inventory
06.8. Taking, Dropping, Inserting and Putting
06.9. Going, Pushing Things in Directions
6.10. Entering and Exiting, Sitting and Standing
6.11. Waiting, Sleeping
6.12. Other Built-In Actions
6.13. Magic Words
6.14. Remembering, Converting and Combining Actions
6.15. Actions on Multiple Objects
6.16. Alternate Default Messages
6.17. Clarification and Correction
6.18. Alternatives To Standard Parsing

Chapter 7. 0Other Characters
Chapter 8. 0Vehicles, Animals and Furniture
Chapter 9. 0Props: Food, Clothing, Money, Toys, Books, Electronics
Chapter 10. Physics: Substances, Ropes, Energy and Weight
Chapter 11. Out Of World Actions and Effects
Chapter 12. Typography, Layout, and Multimedia Effects
Chapter 13. Testing and Publishing

Alphabetical Index of Examples
Thematic Index of Examples

Writing with Inform

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