From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Fionn Stephens <fionnstephens@protonmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [FR] Please add support for screenplay formatting
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:51:56 +0000 [thread overview]
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> The industry standard is to use Final Draft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Draft_(software)), but I personally use Emacs Fountain Mode (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FountainMode). Fountain is a plain text markup language (https://fountain.io/).
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> I'm interested in exporting to PDF and to odt format.
How do you usually export to fountain PDF?
Org mode relies on LaTeX to produce PDF output. Is it possible to have
Fountain blocks in LaTeX?
Fionn Stephens <fionnstephens@protonmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, of course. A screenplay is the document written to help produce a film or TV series. This is the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenplay and here are some examples: https://www.scriptreaderpro.com/screenplay-example/.
>
> The industry standard is to use Final Draft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Draft_(software)), but I personally use Emacs Fountain Mode (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FountainMode). Fountain is a plain text markup language (https://fountain.io/).
>
> I'm interested in exporting to PDF and to odt format.
>
> My own use case is a little experimental with some sections written like a screenplay and other sections written like a novel / short story.
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> I hope that helps.
> Fionn
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> ------- Original Message -------
> On Monday, July 3rd, 2023 at 2:07 PM, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
>
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>> Fionn Stephens fionnstephens@protonmail.com writes:
>>
>> > I think support for screenplay formatting would be a useful feature to add. Like to how comments or quotes are done, it could be in between the tags: #+BEGIN_SCREENPLAY and #+END_SCREENPLAY. I think using the markdown used by Fountain would make the most sense.
>> >
>> > For example, a section could look like:
>> >
>> > #+BEGIN_SCREENPLAY
>> > INT./EXT. BLOOM HOUSE - (PRESENT) DAY
>> > ...
>>
>>
>> May you please elaborate? What is screenplay? Is it a markup format?
>> What do you mean by support? Export? Font-lock? Something else?
>>
>> --
>> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
>> Org mode contributor,
>> Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org/.
>>
>> Support Org development at https://liberapay.com/org-mode,
>>
>> or support my work at https://liberapay.com/yantar92
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Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-03 13:00 [FR] Please add support for screenplay formatting Fionn Stephens
2023-07-03 13:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
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2023-07-03 13:51 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-07-03 14:33 ` Fionn Stephens
2023-07-03 16:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-03 14:32 ` Christian Moe
2023-07-03 15:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-03 13:53 ` Bruno Cardoso
2023-07-03 14:41 ` Fionn Stephens
2023-07-03 16:04 ` Ihor Radchenko
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