Ciao Mark S., TonyM, Jan & Richard WS I just wanted to comment back into this thread--since I left my last posts kinda hanging--and then things opened in a somewhat different direction that I'd anticipated.
I want to give a big thank you to Mark S. who did a lot to help us, probably more than he realises, grasp better the direction needed. In another thread, BJ has given the basic solution to t*he MARKUP problem* by writing a regex component for his FLEXITYPE PLUGIN <http://flexibility.tiddlyspot.com/>. This avoids the problems with Skeeve's useful, but rather dangerous route. I have a few specific comments that may be of interest to you ... 1 - Mark S.' FOUNTAIN PLUGIN <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/9Lf0YHfMUZk/0UrW6uJBEwAJ> opened my eyes to the fact that Fountain is only really "5%" explicit markup. Its real brilliance lays in* interpreting IMPLICIT markup from the simple plain text* layout of screenplays. I did tests throwing into Mark's gizmo the whole script for Apocalypse Now Redux. It got near everything in the layout correct without a single added piece of markup. That's seriously impressive. 2 - This has completely changed my view of Fountain--as well as what is needed for formatting screenplays in TW. 3 - Now that BJ has given a workable, safe, way to "preparse" using regular expressions, without needing any direct JavaScript coding, I'm now working on a similar approach as (1) for screenplays in TW. Its just a matter of knowing what Regexes to use & the Fountain Library on Github gives many of them. So I'm hopeful I can make something good enough for most practical purposes. 4 - FWIW, what became clear to me, personally, was that in in this thread I was slightly blurring up TWO things, albeit related: (a) a *delimited issue with screenplay formatting* and (b) *a more generic way to have a kind of "Tiddy Regex Workshop"* through which you could develop NEW ways of marking-up text without having to deal with the inherently complex TW core parser system (for which I'd be worse than stupid at). With BJ's plugin that issue is largely now manageable. My next step is to finish-up creating a basic markup for screenplays. The step after that will be to turn towards the issue of what is an APPROPRIATE INTERFACE for editing screenplay Tiddlers? Jan has done quite some work on this already. I'm hopeful its not going to be quite so complicated moving into that as sorting through to now was. Things are looking up. Best wishes Josiah @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Other things I'll comment on by way of demonstration when I got them > working well enough. I'm slow... > -- 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/a1dc2199-fc1c-44ec-83bd-8e9980e8cd34%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
