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The awesome thing about this is that it lets you use git. It's a shame your chances of finding a co-writer who can use git are negligible. I wonder what Final D
by Joeboy 11y ago
The awesome thing about this is that it lets you use git. It's a shame your chances of finding a co-writer who can use git are negligible. I wonder what Final Draft etc do about version control?
Another thing: I wish I could work out a free, no-nonsense way of turning fountain into pdf on Linux. I've been going via html, which works OK but feels a bit dirty.
- hellofunk 11y agoLots of screenwriters are techies, manage their own websites, install WP tools, etc. Not necessarily programmers, but I can think of many mainstream writers who would (and possibly already are) using git.
- wj 11y agoOut of curiosity, what do you envision your fountain > pdf program to look like? When you say html are you exporting fountain to html and printing view your web browser? Re. your first point I think a lot of writers date their scripts as their version control. Final Draft does have a limited revision tracking system. At this point I think most screenwriters just pass on PDF documents rather than .fdx or printed pages.
- Joeboy 11y agoI'd like to be doing: textplay myscript.fountain > myscript.pdf but textplay relies on a non-free thing called PrinceXML for its PDF export. So instead I'm doing textplay myscript.fountain > myscript.html wkhtmltopdf myscript.html myscript.pdf which is in no way big deal, it's just a minor annoyance. I have a tiny wrapper (shell) script that does the above anyway.