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Book - Some Meta-Actions

Helping is an action out of world. Carry out helping: say "For this help, say 'help'. For basic information, say 'version'. For acknowledgments, say 'acks'. For other help, I'm afraid you're out of luck." Understand "help" as helping.

Acknowledging is an action out of world. Carry out acknowledging: say "Sources for this work include the Inform 7 documentation, [italic type]Inform 7 for Programmers,[roman type] the [italic type]Inform 7 Handbook,[roman type] Aaron Reed's book [italic type]Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7[roman type] and a whole bunch of other stuff scattered around the web.[paragraph break]My brother, Byron Massey (20 September 1967 – 11 October 2010), was the great player of games in our family, and I wish I could show him what I'm doing. I think he might think it was cool." Understand "acknowledgements" or "acknowledgments" or "acks" as acknowledging.