It seems every good option is paid, and all others are either discontinued (trelby, fountain) or filled with commercial and AI tools (Story Architect)
This is weird and discouraging, coming from the novel world where you could use a plain markdown editor and export it to epub/pdf/whatever you need. Anyone know of something better for screenwriting?
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Im not familiar with screenwriting. Can you elaborate on whats involved and whats expected in a tool for scripting?
I don’t know exactly which is why I’m confused, most people there say you must use a dedicated editor instead of plain text or google docs. Isn’t it all just text?
There is Fountain which is basically Markdown for screenwriting.
They have a list of apps supporting the format: https://fountain.io/apps/
You might want to give emacs a shot
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There is probably something LaTeX based. I doubt you will find any writing tools specifically marketed for screenwriting in the FOSS world if they could just as well be used for dozens of other writing tasks.
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What makes a script need a special word precessor? I’m a bit of a word processor freak so I can probably give a rec
I don’t get your second paragraph. There are many markdown editors, and you can use their inbuilt methods or pandoc to convert that to epub/pdf/whatever. What features are missing from those editors?
I think you misunderstood their statement. They have used simple markdown editors before which are basic but had the export function. Now they are looking for something more advanced which are in line with what the industry is using.
I use Logseq for programming. I’ve used it to export my notes as HTML and they have some other options too.
You mean for programming documentation?
Right. It’s mostly personal notes and I translate some of them into documentation. It’s really helpful for embedding code examples with syntax highlighting.
I exported some stuff today and didn’t see an option for epub/pdf so not sure if it will work for OP. It’s still a nice note taking app. I really like how it does references so I can queue up related items in the sidebar.
KIT Scenarist seems good to me, despite its creators ditching it for starc.
or filled with commercial and AI tools (Story Architect)
Why not just ignore these tools and use the free ones?
