Re: Bill of Rights and Inform Newbie


4 Nov 1995 01:34:27 GMT

So, looking at the response I've gotten, I should wait until the ASCII
version is done?

How I came to this, just to be sure:

1. A simplified version of the manual: I was directed to the beginning
of the manual itself (a shame because I'll have to do my programming with
the manual in the background ... I like multitasking but like paper
better).

2. An ASCII version of the manual: none ... yet.

3. A post said TEX to ASCII isn't gonna happen, but it said TEX -(tex)->DVI
-(converter)->ASCII. Which is right? If in two parts I can get ASCII,
what are the names of the programs (detex and something else, I guess)
and where (Archie has been mean to me in the last few years)?

Of course, if it's taking so long to get an ASCII version of the manual,
I bet it aint that easy.

4.
Jacob Solomon Weinstein (jweinste@phakt.usc.edu) wrote:
: gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees) writes:

: >Jeremy Lakatos <jeremy@grove.ufl.edu> wrote:

: >> 4. Someone who would like to work with me on this

: >It's not as easy as that!

Yeah, I know. That's why it was the worst case scenario. Of course, if it
keeps me from waiting for option #2 to work, I'm for it, I guess.

: That's putting it mildly! In the spring of '91, I sat down with a friend
: and plotted out Save Princeton. It took us two days to come up with the
: plot and the puzzles. It took me until January '93 to finish the programming.

Damn. How complex was your game? Mine is, hopefully, the most basic
you could come up with (it's short and small and is very light on puzzles--
I know, blasphemy) and I don't want to be programming it so long that
it won't be ready until next year's IF competition...though I'd like
to enter it, just cause I love it so much.

: This may explain why we see posts from writers asking for programmers,
: but no posts from programmers asking for writers.

That's because programming sucks. If I liked programming, I'd be using
my EE degree rather than getting a BA in English. People who like programming
probably write compilers and stuff rather than hang on an IF group--which
is much more F than I, though much more game than F as well.

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