[I7] Releasing for Web

[duodave (David Good)]

Chapter 23.13 of the documentation has the following:

When it turns the template into the final web page, what Inform does is to replace certain capitalised words in square brackets with the appropriate text:

[TITLE] becomes the story title
[AUTHOR] becomes the author’s name
[YEAR] becomes the story creation year
[BLURB] becomes the story description
[RELEASE] becomes the release number
[COVER] becomes an image of the cover art (the small 120x120 cover image)
[DOWNLOAD] becomes the download link
[AUXILIARY] becomes the list of feelie-like files, if any
[IFID] becomes the IFID
[STORYFILE] becomes the “leafname” of the story file, e.g., “Bronze.gblorb”
[TEMPLATE] becomes the name of the template used to make the page
[SMALLCOVER] becomes the filename of the small cover image
[BIGCOVER] becomes the filename of the large cover image
[TIMESTAMP] and [DATESTAMP] become the time and date of releasing

In my tests, it seems that “story headline” is not an included variable. Is this accurate? Any clue why headline isn’t a usable variable when creating the web page?

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

{HEADLINE} is the thing that appears in the banner within the game between the title and your name.

If you start the game in the browser, it will appear with the banner. It doesn’t appear on the home page.

It’s so you can define what your game is “an original story” “a true tale of horror” “Part One of the Mudraker Saga”

In my text, it looks like:

The story headline is "A tale"

The [BLURB] does appear on the website, and is like the description on the box cover.