Re: [FR] Please add support for screenplay formatting

[Fionn Stephens <fionnstephens@protonmail.com>]

I just found a python package that can convert fountain markdown to LaTeX: https://pypi.org/project/fountain/. 

And this is a LaTeX package that can create screenplays: https://ctan.org/pkg/screenplay?lang=en. 

The Fountain Mode in emacs can use different backends, but I use Afterwriting: https://afterwriting.com/. 






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On Monday, July 3rd, 2023 at 2:51 PM, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:


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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/).
> > 
> > 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?
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> 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.
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > > 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?
> > > 
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