Output PDF document does not display scene numbering. Even if it's in the fountain file.

[chariegg]

I find your command line program to be very cool. However, it lacks in one thing: scene numbering. What it does is if the numbering like 'poundsign-number-poundsign' is in the right place, just bold the scene or if improperly (like at the start because I made a mistake with where to put it), it removes the scene line (such as INT. or EXT.) entirely. I'm going to provide my example fountain file and the output to what ftn2pdf generated. I'll even share with you a short awk/perl snippet I used to number all the scenes, though I haven't tried it yet when a scene is already numbered.

awk '/^INT.|^EXT./ {$0=$0 " #NUMBERLATER#"} 1' $1 > $2
perl -pe 's/NUMBERLATER/++$i/e' $RNAME > $OUTPUTNAME

If you could please add an option to number scenes upon conversion and correctly show the scene numbering if they're put in the document properly, that would be great to have. Thank you for this project.

example.file.txt
output.pdf

[xiota]

Do you have a reference that shows how scene numbering is supposed to look in the final output?

I haven't looked at the code in a while. So this would depend on how easy it is to add (if I can even understand the code anymore).

[chariegg]

Do you have a reference that shows how scene numbering is supposed to look in the final output?

I haven't looked at the code in a while. So this would depend on how easy it is to add (if I can even understand the code anymore).

In the fountain syntax, it says that any number between two pound signs is completely valid for a scene numbering. In fact, that's how other editors (like betterfountain for vscode or fountain-mode for emacs) do auto scene numbering, by wrapping them in two pound signs.

https://fountain.io/syntax/#scene-headings

[chariegg]

Do you have a reference that shows how scene numbering is supposed to look in the final output?

I haven't looked at the code in a while. So this would depend on how easy it is to add (if I can even understand the code anymore).

Here is an example from afterwriting, using the fountain.js javascript library. It has the option to have scene numbering on either side or both, though I'm not sure if on the left side is valid scene numbering.
BrickAndSteelEXAMPLE.pdf

[xiota]

I remember doing something with scene numbering before. Maybe it was in the xml/html output.