i18 Porting References

Useful links for porters and code maintainers of the libraries to other locales.

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Table of Contents

• Locale Agnostic References
  • ALAN Specific Articles
  • Other IF Systems
    • Inform 6
• Spanish References
  • Spanish Libraries
    • INFSP 6 Sources
  • Spanish Grammar
• Italian References
  • Italian Grammar
• Swedish References
  • Swedish Inform

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Locale Agnostic References

General articles and references on issues regarding Interactive Fiction and internationalization.

ALAN Specific Articles

• Alan Italian » Wiki:
  • GNA Informese
  • i18n Problems
  • Predefined Player Words

Other IF Systems

References from other IF authoring systems and libraries, which can be of great inspiration also for ALAN developers.

Inform 6

• The Inform Designer's Manual (Aka DM4) — by Graham Nelson:
  • §34. Linguistics and the Inform parser — info on GNA model, input parsing, etc.

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Spanish References

• CAAD — Club de Aventuras AD.
• WikiCAAD — la enciclopedia de la aventura conversacional hispana.

Spanish Libraries

• WikiCAAD » ADRIFT — Adventure Development & Runner — Interactive Fiction Toolkit:
  • Spdrift — librería para crear aventuras con ADRIFT en español, 2008.
  • ARL Hispano — una biblioteca de respuestas en español, 2004.
• WikiCAAD » ALAN:
  • pALANte — Librería castellana para ALAN, 2010.
• WikiCAAD » Inform
  • InformATE — (Inform Ahora Totalmente en Español) Spanish library for Inform v6.30.
    • Kit del Programador de InformATE
  • INFSP — (Inform in Spanish) Spanish library for Inform v6.31 and Inform7.
    • INFSP Downloads — single files for both INFSP 6 and 7, FTP like folder.
    • INFSP 6 Downloads
    • INFSP 7 Downloads
• WikiCAAD » Superglús — a Spanish programming language for text adventures, 2003:
  • CAAD » Superglús — official homepage.
• WikiCAAD » Creación de Aventuras — more IF system ... (there are too many to list them all).

INFSP 6 Sources

We've included the INFSP 6 library sources (R901.21) in the Wiki, as they can be a very useful reference for the development of our Spanish Foundation Library:

• INFSPR.h
• Spanish.h
• SpanishG.h

WARNING — All sources were converted from Latin-1 to UTF-8, for practical purposes, since these files are are only for studying purposes. They can no longer be used with Inform, due to their new encoding.

Spanish Grammar

• Prepositions:
  • Wikipedia » Spanish Prepositions
  • DE / DEL:
    • How To Use the Spanish Preposition 'De'
• Feminine nouns with aricle 'EL':
  • Spanish words that start with stressed A and HA
  • Spanish feminine nouns with masculine articles
  • Diccionario panhispánico de dudas » el
  • The Enigmatic Morphology of Spanish azúcar and the "New Feminine el"

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Italian References

• English versus Italian — by Max Bianchi "torredifuoco", 2007.

Italian Grammar

• Pronouns:
  • Treccani » PERSONALI, PRONOMI
  • Treccani » ALLOCUTIVI, PRONOMI

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Swedish References

Swedish Inform

• Swedish Inform website

Swedish library for Inform 6/11 (formerly Tidsformer) by Fredrik Ramsberg 2003–2008, plus extensions, documents, extra tools and examples.

We've included a selection of the library sources in the Wiki, for references purposes:

• SweAlpha.h — Z-machine alphabet optimized for Swedish.
• Swedish.h — Inform language definition file.
• SwedishG.h — grammar table entries for the standard verbs library.
• SweRout.h — routines replacements for Parserm.h.
• SweLicense.txt — renamed from License.txt

WARNING — All sources were converted from Latin-1 to UTF-8, for practical purposes, since these files are are only for studying purposes. They can no longer be used with Inform, due to their new encoding.