Gargoyle

Gargoyle is a Glk API library for both the UNIX and MS-Windows operating systems. It was specially designed to optimize the typography of the I/O system. The author and maintainer is Tor Andersson.

The name Gargoyle is also used to refer to the set of interpreters (with a common front-end) which Andersson ported to use his Gargoyle library. The interpreters currently (as of August 2006) included in this set are:

• for ADRIFT games:
  • Glk SCARE 1.3.3

• for AdvSys games:
  • AdvSys 1.2

• for AGT games:
  • Glk AGiliTy 1.1.1

• for Alan games (v2 and v3):
  • ARUN 2.8(6)
  • ARUN 3.0alpha1

• for Hugo games:
  • Hugo 3.1

• for Inform & Infocom games:
  • Z-code (Z-machine VM):
    • Glk Frotz 2.4.3
    • Nitfol 0.5
    • no version 6 support
  • Glulx VM:
    • Git 1.1.0
    • Glulxe 0.3.5

• for Level 9 games:
  • Glk Level9 4.0

• for Magnetic Scrolls games:
  • Glk Magnetic 2.2

• for TADS 2 and TADS 3 games:
  • TADS 2.5.9/3.0.9
  • HTML TADS is not supported yet.

Specifics

Gargoyle is intended to care about typography, that is to render the IF in a way most comfortable for reading. Features include specially chosen fonts, kerning, ligatures, text justification and many others. The options can be finetuned in the simple text file 'garglk.ini', for example using the Notepad. For example the text justification can be turned on by changing the line containing

justify		0	# 0=ragged-right 1=justified

to

justify		1	# 0=ragged-right 1=justified

See also: Spatterlight, a similar program for MacOS X.

Links

• Gargoyle - Gargoyle's homepage.
• Modified Gargoyle (description is in Italian though)