Organising the material in I7

[severedhand]

Here are a couple of topics where people bounce source organisation ideas around:

Organizing Inform 7 code

In general, I always try to place rules and special code before where it’s used in the source. Often this will work okay the other way around but I don’t like to chance it. I number volumes/sections etc because I can turn on automatic numbering in preferences and it will update them automatically and numerically as I add stuff. You can also just use names “Volume - Let there be light” “Chapter - And then there were random giraffes”.

Inform 7 Headings

Hi, I’m trying to figure out Inform 7 headings. I’ve perused the Inform 7 built-in documentation as well as Ron Newcomb’s Inform 7 Programmer’s Manual and I think I have them nailed down, but would like confirmation - and to ask one additional question. It looks like Inform 7 likes the following hierarchical headings. I think I understand the good-practice behind using them, from reading Newcomb’s book and Reed’s Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 - they make debugging a little easier …

Wade