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		<h1 id="api" class="mt-4 border-top">General</h1>
		<p>ISHML stands for Interactive Story grapH Management Library, but you can call it "Ishmael."  It facilitates the creation of <a href="https://iftechfoundation.org/frequently-asked-questions/">interactive fiction</a> in JavaScript and is intended for client-side applications.</p>
		<p>The ISHML library is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface">fluent API</a> with straightforwardly named properties and methods, many of which are chainable.</p>
		<p>The library exposes its methods and properties via a global variable, <code>ishml</code>. </p>
		<p>The ISHML library is intended for modern browsers and relies on features of JavaScript found in the ES2016 specification. </p>
		<p>See <a href="tutorials/index.html">tutorials</a> for examples of use.</p>
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		{% include_relative _api/parser.html %}
		{% include_relative _api/phrase.html %}
		{% include_relative _api/rule.html %}
		{% include_relative _api/template.html %}
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