The Film Script formatting rules in a SIMPLE TEXT EDITOR
There are two variants. One for simple text editors and one for Libreoffice Writer.
This is the indentation-based formatting rule-set. It can be referred to as the film_script_i formatting. This can be used with Simple Text Editors.
the film_script_i rules
|- - - - - 5 tabs << character name (dialogue)
|- - - - 4 tabs << parenthetical
|- - - 3 tabs << dialogue
|- 1 tab << action description
|0 tab << scene heading
## scene heading 🡠 it starts with a ## at tab 0
It wasn't a necessary choice to use markdown's ## as an additional notation for scene heading (beside 0 tab indent). But it really looks great when writing. With the usual text-editor settings it gets highlighted. Giving you even more sense of a structure, visually.
auxiliary markings, transitions:
>CUT TO,
> DISSOLVE TO,
etc...
w/out space. These are one-liners...
The key thing is indentation. (The idea came from Python :))
Indentation produces the intelligent (intelligible) structure.
This is why our text can be 'parsed', and converted to HTML5.
But it's also great because our script looks already great as we're writing it! :)
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