I feel for you Its a lot more difficult than it first looks.
The strictness of the screenplay form is both what is good about it and challenging. I'm incapable of helping you with code. However I can help with conceptualisation of how to think about screenplays. In my own thinking they are a mix of TWO fundamentally different types of things. A script is a crossing of "vertical" sections (act, scene etc) and "horizontal" components that form the "content" -- Dialogue, Direction, Actions, Scene instructions. Whilst its relatively easy to think about Tiddlers to create the "vertical aspect" its not at all easy to conceptualise how to most appropriately do the "horizontal" content. Should they be separate Tiddlers? Or just Boilerplate text? Some cases bring out more clearly the needs. For instance, would you need to be able to extract ALL but ONLY the dialogue of Eve? To be able to do that all Eve's dialogue would need to be in Tiddlers OR you gonna have to develop very smart Regular Expressions to extract it. The same applies to Scene Setting that Executive Producers & DPs would need. My feeling now about Fountain is its excellent if you going for the Regular Expressions extraction method. TW can actually do much more than Fountain. I think the issue is getting the right conceptual model to start from. Just thoughts On Monday, 28 August 2017 15:44:44 UTC+2, Jan wrote: > > Hi all, > I am working on a tool for screenwriting (So far in german but with a > languageTiddler to configure: http://storywriting.tiddlyspot.com/) > The aim should be managing ideas, roles and storylines and of course > formatting Wikitext as a screenplay. > After hours of trying to adapt the normal rules and getting into an > awfull mess I finally decided I should follow an Idea brought up by BJ > and Josiah and implement > the fountain library https://fountain.io/ > Is there anyone who has done this already? > At the moment I got no clue how this could be achieved. > > Yours Jan > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d58fb788-661e-4206-ae2b-8659b5d20048%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
