Re: [FR] Please add support for screenplay formatting

[Ihor Radchenko]

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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?

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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>> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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