Ciao Jan I looked more closely at Fountain Syntax.
It might be possible, I think, to do a reduced, but still effective, simpler subset in a TW markup. Its basically using regular expressions. The Fountain *forced* syntax is very simple. Lines starting with special characters get converted in a consistent way. This means the parser does not to have to make "guesses" the more complex method uses. The minimal small "forced" set is only this ... . = Scene Heading ! = Action @ = Character > = Transition Character is the most complex because its a block, not just a line, i.e. its Character name plus dialogue, and sometimes parenthetic comments. My point is that it might be just as easy, if not easier, to achieve directly in TW, rather than import a library. Just thoughts Josiah On Monday, 28 August 2017 22:40:35 UTC+2, Jan wrote: > > Hi Josiah, > fountain (at least as it seems to me) is a markuplanguage with a freeware > .js. Hopfully it could be implemented like markup is in the new release, > some features are already very similar. > > http://bjtools.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fbj%2Fmarkdownlike%2Freadme > There are implementations for libre-office and mediawiki. > > Developping the story of course will be a task for TW. > > Yours Jan > > > Am 28.08.2017 um 17:26 schrieb @TiddlyTweeter: > > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > 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 > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d58fb788-661e-4206-ae2b-8659b5d20048%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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/6ed83b13-7134-4909-97df-ccc9fbee5cd6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
