Descriptive text meant for players that Inform 7 ignores

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

Another documentation section that might be useful is 18.1, which basically tells you a lot of phrases* that can be used to start rules, and some that start things that look like rules but aren’t.

*There’s a technical meaning of “phrase” in Inform, but I mean “phrase” as in “a bunch of words.”

[emshort]

@EvaCatHerder

You are absolutely right, When I put 14L’s code in to a test game, it works just fine. I clearly need to go backwards and figure out why it isn’t working in my game version.

Thank you all for your help. I may be back with more questions, though.

Best guess: a stray incorrect quotation mark earlier in the source is screwing up Inform’s interpretation.

[Blecki]

It looks like there are newlines embedded within the string in the first example. Is that allowed?

[capmikee]

@matt w

*There’s a technical meaning of “phrase” in Inform, but I mean “phrase” as in “a bunch of words.”

I think Ron Newcomb calls those “constructs.”