scripttool [OPTIONS] VERB [VERB PARAMETERS]
scripttool a program for converting between screenplay formats (e.g. .fdx, .fadein, .fountain)
scripttool converts screen play file formats. Supported formats include FileDraft’s XML format, FadeIn’s zipped XML format, Fountain formatted plain text as the Open Screenplay Format XML documents. The command line program is based on a Go package also called scripttool. The Go package can be compiled to a shared library and integrated with Python via the ctypes package.
Below are a set of options available.
-examples display examples
-generate-manpage generate man page
-generate-markdown generate Markdown documentation
-h, -help display help
-i, -input set input filename
-l, -license display license
-nl, -newline add a trailing newline to output
-o, -output set output filename
-quiet suppress error messages
-v, -version display version
Converting screenplay.fdx to screenplay.fountain (2 examples)
scripttool fdx2fountain screenplay.fdx screenplay.fountain
scripttool -i screenplay.fdx -o screenplay.fountain fdx2fountain
Converting screenplay.fountain to screenplay.fdx (2 examples)
scripttool fountain2fdx screenplay.fountain screenplay.fdx
scripttool -i screenplay.fountain -o screenplay.fdx fountain2fdx
Listing characters in screenplay.fountain or in screenplay.fdx. (2 examples each)
scripttool characters screenplay.fountain
scripttool -i screenplay.fountain characters
scripttool characters screenplay.fdx
scripttool -i screenplay.fdx characters
scripttool v0.0.3