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Fountain is a simple markup syntax for writing, editing and sharing screenplays in plain, human-readable text. Fountain allows you to work on your screenplay anywhere, on any computer or tablet, using any software that edits text files. For more info, see fountain.io

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Blake Henry, Paul W. Rankin5

4/24/18

Thanks Paul, I'm not developing an app - there are way too many good ones out there already. I

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Thanks Paul, I'm not developing an app - there are way too many good ones out there already. I

4/24/18

Paul Rankin, … Stu Maschwitz11

4/13/18

Extending page break syntax

After implementing the below quoted proposal in fountain-mode for emacs, I found that the end-of-

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Extending page break syntax

After implementing the below quoted proposal in fountain-mode for emacs, I found that the end-of-

4/13/18

3/13/18

Re: App Admin Panel

Hi Aaron, Formatting the alignment in HTML with individual spaces is probably not the way to go....

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Re: App Admin Panel

Hi Aaron, Formatting the alignment in HTML with individual spaces is probably not the way to go....

3/13/18

Paul Rankin, John August3

1/25/18

Proposal: using pipe for blank lines in dialogue

Awesome. Great to hear you're into the idea John. As for technical implementation, here's

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Proposal: using pipe for blank lines in dialogue

Awesome. Great to hear you're into the idea John. As for technical implementation, here's

1/25/18

Paul Rankin, Stu Maschwitz3

7/15/17

Dual dialogue edge-case

I think the status quo works better. Having an element that *may* be exported between dual dialogue

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Dual dialogue edge-case

I think the status quo works better. Having an element that *may* be exported between dual dialogue

7/15/17

Hendrik Noeller, … clint3

3/1/17

I think it's simpler to focus on "phrases" instead of line breaks. A phrase is easier

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I think it's simpler to focus on "phrases" instead of line breaks. A phrase is easier

3/1/17

8/19/16

Highland new syntaxes

After perusing all the new proposed syntaxes in the Highland betas, I think the group/list might like

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Highland new syntaxes

After perusing all the new proposed syntaxes in the Highland betas, I think the group/list might like

8/19/16

John August, … Paul Rankin12

8/1/16

Wait sorry I do have an IRL use-case I'm already using.... I have a title template, so the writer

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Wait sorry I do have an IRL use-case I'm already using.... I have a title template, so the writer

8/1/16

8/1/16

Fountain and Simplicity

When John and I created Fountain, we both agreed on two fundamentals: The raw text should look as

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Fountain and Simplicity

When John and I created Fountain, we both agreed on two fundamentals: The raw text should look as

8/1/16

6/27/16

Title page metadata: propose relaxing indent to 1 or more spaces

From http://fountain.io/syntax#section-titlepage Values can be inline with the key or they can be

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Title page metadata: propose relaxing indent to 1 or more spaces

From http://fountain.io/syntax#section-titlepage Values can be inline with the key or they can be

6/27/16

6/3/16

Open Source command line tool

Attached a version of Big Fish - it's not up to that yet, but it shows neatly what works and what

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Open Source command line tool

Attached a version of Big Fish - it's not up to that yet, but it shows neatly what works and what

6/3/16

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