Re: [FR] Please add support for screenplay formatting

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

Ihor Radchenko writes:

> 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?

Fountain is a Markdown-inspired plain text format for screenplays
(https://fountain.io/).

There exists a fountain-mode major mode for Emacs.

To my mind, Org should not support every kind of markup/markdown format
there is, but to the extent Fountain is the best format for screenplays,
and Org is good for organizing bits of screenplays, I think maybe using
Org-babel src blocks is the way to go?

Even without a dedicated ob-fountain package to support it, it can be
used today for tangling screenplays from blocks of Fountain format with
noweb syntax, editing blocks in fountain-mode, some limited syntax
highlighting etc.

Yours,
Christian