Contents Index Headings and   extensions;   named values, Tables and so on; the   Library Card; the   story file. How do headings work?  ; What's the Library Card?

Contents Page

Chapter - Acting in darkness 

Section - Examining 

Section - Looking 

Section - Feeling around and room description 

Section - Standard replies 

Chapter - Naming 

Chapter - New actions 

Section - Following up and down 

Chapter - Sample objects 

light bulb, smaller cylinder

Part - Strapped in a chair 

chair, restraining belt, broad plastic button

Part - Replacing some standard rules 

Section - You can (also) see 

Section - You can't see any such thing 

List of extensions included (About these  )

Standard Rules  version 2/090402

List of named values (About these )

Situation
player ... person
location  ... an object
score  ... a number
last notified score ... a number
maximum score ... a number
turn count ... a number
time of day  ... a time
darkness witnessed ... something which is either true or false

Current action
noun  ... an object
second noun ... an object
person asked  ... an object
reason the action failed  ... the name of a rule
item described ... an object

Used when ruling on accessibility
person reaching  ... an object
container in question ... an object
supporter in question ... an object
particular possession  ... thing

Used when understanding typed commands
player's command  ... a snippet
matched text ... a snippet
number understood  ... a number
time understood ... a time
topic understood ... a snippet
truth state understood ... something which is either true or false
current item from the multiple object list ... an object

Presentation on screen
command prompt  ... some text
left hand status line  ... some text
right hand status line ... some text
listing group size ... a number

Strapped in a chair
belt boolean  ... something which is either true or false
getting off the chair counter  ... a number

List of Tables (About tables )

Table of Final Question Options	5 columns, 5 rows
Table of Locale Priorities	2 columns, 7 rows (6 blank)
Table of Invisible Objects	2 columns, 1 row

Library Card (About library cards: )

Story title	He Turns Towards the Light
Story author	Jimmy Maher and Victor Gijsbers
Story headline	An Interactive Fiction
Story genre	Fiction
Release number	1
Story creation year	(This year)
IFID number	0DCF9F48-E052-11DE-B6B3-0026182F8D31
Story description	None

Story file format:  Z-Machine version 5

In a Z-machine story file, array memory can be very limited. Switching to the Glulx setting removes all difficulty, but some authors like to squeeze the very most out of the Z-machine instead. This list shows about how much array space is used by some larger items the source text has chosen to create.