https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171250
Bug ID: 171250
Summary: a tiny additional feature request: Fountain Markdown
support for Writer
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 26.8.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
hi,
Fountain support for Writer !! :)
(Fountain is 99.9 Markdown. So, Writer practically has it already.)
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So, first of all, congratulations for V26.2 and the Markdown support!
Support? :) Not just that. It is a complete markdown functionality! Reading and
writing and editing. Exporting and importing ! :)
Writer has just made a giant leap.
It really is AMAZING!
Now, a small logical next step offers itself. Kinda :)
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Fountain, namely.
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"Fountain is a simple markup syntax for writing, editing and sharing
screenplays in plain, human-readable text."
https://fountain.io/
I'm not deep into this, but I can see that there has been an ongoing battle,
since the '90s, for a screenwriting application. Microsoft word was no good,
and of course, they wouldn't have competed with another (however much smaller)
giant. They rather split up the market.
Then came Openoffice... and Finally Libre :)
Screenwriting, however, remained a monopoly, so to speak.
Early on, there was Celtix, a then free software. But times change.
Then, in around 2012, there was a wave. A new one, involving Markdown. Making a
screenwriter using Markdown all of sudden became a thing.
Fountain was born around 2008?
it represented a revolution: people can write screenplays like... like other
people before them, using a typewriter :)
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Fountain became an established standard.
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Actually, I see no real markup language whatsoever... no offense, it is not a
bad thing...
see:
https://fountain.io/syntax/
At the website they say:
"It’s a simple set of straightforward [rules](http://fountain.io/syntax) for
writing a screenplay in plain text. If you opened a text editing app, or even
email, and started typing something that looked like a screenplay, chances are,
you’re using Fountain."
Reading the Fountain syntax, it really seems like the set of rules is not for
an application but for people writing.
The point being that Fountain doesn't add much at all.
Just a few additional markup notations... like a dot at the beginning of a
line, forcing it to be interpreted as an action description paragraph...
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Fountain support...
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If would be enormously great if Writer could interpret Fountain, import and
export Fountain "format". AFAICS, it's 99.9% just Markdown.
But imagine the headlines "Libreoffice Writer now offers Fountain support for
professional screenwriting".
It requires but small step now on LO's developers' part.
And bear in mind that what Writer would offer wouldn't be Final Draft
compatibility, but Markdown and Fountain support :) :) Native support and
write/read export/import compatibility.
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It would be a revolution!
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It would be the revival of the revolution that flared up in around 2012, and
ended soon after as developers targeted mac users and android users -- write a
movie on your phone, LOL :)
It would be a revolution, and Writer would not only support but also change
professional screenwriting.. the way Markdown had aimed to...
* * * * * thank you for V 26.2 !!! and for developing Writer !! * * * * *
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