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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sun Jul 18 00:33:36 +0000 2010 ------- It works great to specify spacing after paragraph in pt units. That looks right. However there is one aspect of screenplay formatting that I cannot encapsulate in a style. .... INT - WAREHOUSE - DAY Dt. Forsythe walks up the stairs carrying the beat up trombone like it is especially heavy. INT - DUSTY STOREROOM - DAY Dt. Forsythe plays a few sad minor notes on the beat-up old trombone, which whistles and barely makes a sound. FORSYTHE I'm gonna miss you, sweetheart. With a sigh and a final, reticent look, Dt. Forsythe places the trombone back into the red velvet lining of its case. MATCH CUT: INT - NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT The trombone shines from the red velvet lining of its case. Young Forsythe picks it up and goes to join THE BAND. JIMMY starts a few taps of a jazz beat. JIMMY It's a hot one tonight! PATRONS in classy digs mill about with drinks in their hands or talk over food presented by WAITERS. ... In my styles, the sluglines (INT/EXT - LOCATION - TIME) are a heading style so they show up as tags in PDF export. "Direction" and "Dialog" styles typically have a space of 12pt after paragraph. However, there should not be extra space before or after the "MATCH CUT" line which is usually right-justified to specify a special type of cut between scenes - call it an "Edit Instruction" line. (In this case, the trombone would remain in the same place on the screen, and the scenery and audio would change.) But I can't specify a negative space before paragraph if I want to set the edit instruction line in its own style. Because the "Direction" style default is to have an extra space after paragraph, it means I have to change that setting manually in Format.Paragraph to accommodate edit instruction lines. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
