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The «if» macro is used to control what text the player sees when they visit a passage, or what macros are run when the passage loads.
Usage
The «if» macro can be used in formats like these:
«if condition» Text «endif»
«if condition» Text «else» Text «endif»
«if condition» Text «else if condition» Text «else if condition» … «endif»
condition is a code expression that can evaluate to true or false. Text is any amount of passage text that you wish to display only if the condition is true. «endif» is a macro tag indicating the end of the «if» macro invocation.
A note about line breaks
When a passage containing an «if» macro is displayed, the «if» and «endif» macro tags are removed from the text. But, the line on which the tags was placed will remain - thus, if it was by itself on a line, it will create a blank line. You can choose to fix this by ending the tags' lines with a backslash:
You leap over the sawblade with deft ease. <<if $alive>>\ She laughs. "Still not dead? How callous of you to scorn Death's loving embrace!" <<endif>>\ <code>
<<else>>
«else» is a macro that is used to indicate text that should be displayed if the condition is false.
The door to the left leads to the pantry.
<<if visited("Pantry")>>
No way are you going back in there!
<<else>>
Sounds like a good place to search...
<<endif>>
The «else» macro can itself contain another “if condition”, which causes the contents to only display if THAT condition is true:
<<if $health is 3>>\ You're in tip-top condition - fighting fit and frankly fearsome. No human or god can lick you! <<else if $health is 2>>\ DOOMED! You're DOOMED, puny player!! You've lost already! YOU CANNOT WIN!! MWAHAHAHAHA! <<endif>>\
You can insert as many «else if»'s as you want inside an «if» / «endif» pair.
(Note: if you prefer, you can also write “else if” as “elseif”.)
