Alternative formatting options.

[BryceB]

I'm planning a couple of audio theater pieces right now and I just
bumped into Trelby. It is awesome. I love how focused and
straightforward it is to use.

However, the standard format for audio theater scripts is slightly
different from a screenplay. Do you think it will ever be possible to
choose a template (screenplay, audio drama script, comic book script,
whatever...) like you can in celtx?

I would also be just as usable if there were an "export as radio
theater script" function, so that the editor portion could look
exactly the same.

I realize this is probably not a feature a whole lot of people would
use, but it might be easy(ish) to implement.

When I get some free time, maybe I'll pull a copy of the source to see
if I can build it in. I've only messed around with python, though, so
I'm not sure how long it would take for me to really get what's going
on in the code.

One question, do you build the pdf from scratch when exporting, or
does it basically somehow just take what's already been rendered in
the editing window and convert that to a pdf?

[Anil Gulecha]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:37 PM, BryceB <runam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm planning a couple of audio theater pieces right now and I just
> bumped into Trelby. It is awesome. I love how focused and
> straightforward it is to use.
>
> However, the standard format for audio theater scripts is slightly
> different from a screenplay. Do you think it will ever be possible to
> choose a template (screenplay, audio drama script, comic book script,
> whatever...) like you can in celtx?
>

Trelby will always officially be for screenplays (and only for screenplays).

That said, you can easily modifyle the basic types to audio-theater
formatting via script/settings, where the indentation, etc is
editable. Then save the config, or the file and use that as the
starting point everytime you write an audio theater piece.

>
> When I get some free time, maybe I'll pull a copy of the source to see
> if I can build it in. I've only messed around with python, though, so
> I'm not sure how long it would take for me to really get what's going
> on in the code.
>
> One question, do you build the pdf from scratch when exporting, or
> does it basically somehow just take what's already been rendered in
> the editing window and convert that to a pdf?

Trelby has a built in module written in python (pdf.py) that basically
implements the PDF spec. The screenplay information is then printed
onto so called pages via this, and that's how you get the PDF file.

Cheers
Anil