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{ "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, summaries 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 speech script reader
    • Should support configuration for assigning voices to different characters
  • fountain2trelby
  • osf2trelby
  • fdx2trelby
  • trelby2fdx
  • trelby2fountain
  • trelby2osf

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