{ “scripttool”: “A program for converting screen play formats” }

Action Items

Bugs

• fountain parser is miss-identifying some elements as character when they are things like scene headings. This should up in JSON output and characters report, see testdata/sample-07.fountain for example of bug
  • scripttool fountain2json testdata/sample-07.fountain
  • scripttool characters testdata/sample-07.fountain

Next

• fountain2html
• fountain2json
• fountain2fdx (Fountain to Final Draft XML)
• fountain2osf (Fountain to Open Screenplay Format 1.2,2.0)
• fdx2fountain (build on fdx2txt in fdx, handle TitlePage better)
• fdx2osf (Final Draft XML to Open Screenplay Format 1.2,2.0 XML)
• osf2fdx (Open Screenplay Format 1.2,2.0 XML to Final Draft XML)
• osf2fountain (Open Screenplay Format 1.2,2.0 XML to Fountain)
• fountain2fadein, fadein2fountain
• edit (simple line oriented editor with colorization for Fountain/Markdown)
  • auto-convert to/fountain on open
  • auto-convert from fountain to origin version on save
  • timed-autosave
  • backup original files
• headings - report the headings as a outline
• scenes - report the number of scenes, order and estimate time
• lines - report line count
• words - report word count
• character - report character count
• outline (OPML) to scenes/chapters
• notes, sections and synopsis
• eprints like metadata for the script
• Story timeline (using stn) for temporal story outlines
• Scene beat report, sumaries per scene happenings (who speaks, description, estimated running time)
• Search/indexing for script and related assets

Someday, Maybe

• GUI for managing a screenplay project (like Scrivener but GTK based so as can running under Linux)
• PDF generation from various formats (possibly via Pandoc)
• write and fountain2html, fdx2html, osf2html, fadein2html using scrippets approach
• Create a fountain text to speach script reader
  • Should support configuration for assigning voices to different characters
• fountain2trelby
• osf2trelby
• fdx2trelby
• trelby2fdx
• trelby2fountain
• trelby2osf

Reference Links

• gofpdf - Kurt Jung’s Go implementation of fpdf
• Fountain
• Open Screenplay Format 2.0
• Open Screenplay Format 2.1
• Screenbox HTML and CSS is some CSS for marking up HTML classes hand presenting a script section in an HTML page
• scrippets Wordpress Plugin, scrippets.org website appears gone.