Paul wrote:
No, you can indeed not create screen writing templates with styles
alone. To give you an idea of how script writing works - there are
certain elements like a "Scene Heading" with a certain indentation,
all typed in Upper case. Then there are scene actions, with a
different indentation, typed in lower case. Character names before
dialogue are always centralised and capitalised; the dialogue
following it has yet again a different indentation and is again in
lower case... In script maker each of these can be achieved with a
simple shortcut, such as Ctrl>N to capitalise a character name and put
it in the right place on the page; Ctrl > H for Scene heading etc. It
is these commands that don't all work in OO.
I've just had a tinker with styles so that when you apply them they:
- turn lower case to all caps (and visa versa)
- indent to what ever spacing you want
- align to center, left, right
You can assign style changes using a macro, then assign keyboard
shortcuts to the macro's. Now I'm not saying that it won't be without
a little work, but unless the 'pagination' thing mentioned earlier, is
more tricky, OOo _should_ be able to cope.
The first thing is that paragraphs containing a page break have to have
"(CONTINUED)" before and "CONTINUED:" after the break.
The second thing is that, after a script has been finalized, any further
revisions (and there are always further revisions) have to keep the page
breaks where they were in the original "final" version, with fractional
pages added as needed. Same thing for scene numbers, etc..
Also, proper screenwriting software will typically provide other
services, such as making lists of every scene character X is in, every
scene set in location Y, every scene where prop Z is needed, etc.. And a
good package will also come with templates for the quirks of all the
various studios and for various current TV series.
Macros or nothing, guys.
--
John W. Kennedy
"I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of
ignorant people is too dangerous to live in."
-- Garson Kanin. "Born Yesterday"
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