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-screenwriter.el
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-The most universal and simple solution is Screenwriter.el a fork of
-Screenplay.el by Vance L. Simpson. This is an excellent screenplay (major) mode
-for GNU Emacs that is easy to use, efficient, and will work on any and every
-platform that the ubiquitous and revered GNU Emacs works on.
-If you are running a default install of Slackware, as Slackermedia recommends,
-then you will have Emacs installed already. If you have not installed Emacs,
-you will find it in the e package set.
-Installing .el files for Emacs is as simple as placing the .el in a user-owned
-~/elisp directory, and then adding that ~/elisp directory into Emacs' load
-directory if it is not already there:
-$ mkdir ~/elisp
-$ wget
-http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/screenwriter/screenwriter/screenwriter-1.5.tar.bz2
-$ tar -xf screenwriter-1.5.tar.bz2
-$ mv ./screenwriter-mode/screenwriter.el ~/elisp
-$  echo "(add-to-list 'load-path \"~/elisp\")" >> .emacs
-$ echo "(require 'screenplay)" >> .emacs
-Start emacs and press meta x, and type screenwriter-mode. You are now in
-screenplay-mode and can start writing in proper screenplay format. Read the
-comments in ~/elisp/screenplay.el for instructions on how to use the
-application, or read on for use and optimization, Slackermedia style.
-Using and Optimizing Screenwriter-mode
-There are three elements in screenplays:
-  * Slug Lines (scene headings, such as INT. CAFE - NIGHT)
-  * Screen Direction (blocks of action text, wherein the screenwriter describes
-    what a character is doing physically during a scene)
-  * Dialogue (heavily indented blocks of text in which characters speak)
-Accessing each element is done with keyboard commands that can be easily
-remembered with the mnemonic SAD:
-  * Control-c s Slugline
-  * Control-c a Action (Screen direction)
-  * Control-c d Dialogue
-Additionally, you can use Control-c t to insert Transitions (indented and
-capitalized blocks for CUT TO:, FADE IN, FADE OUT, and so on).
-Whitespace is handled for you, so there is no need to place a blank line
-between the actor's lines, or between a slugline and the beginning of the
-action, and so on.
-Note
-Alternate keybindings for each element type centers around the tab key:
-  * tab return Slugline
-  * tab tab return Action
-  * tab tab tab return Dialogue
-  * tab tab tab tab return Transition
-Streamlining Screenwriter-mode
-Make screenwriter-mode a quicker launch from within emacs by adding a global
-keyboard shortcut for it, and defining the expected file suffix:
-  ; a quick and easy way to enter screenplay-mode
-  (global-set-key (kbd "<f5>")
-  'screenplay-mode)
-  ; open any file with a .scp or .screenplay suffix in
-  screenplay-mode
-    (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.scp" . screenplay-mode)
-    auto-mode-alist))
-  (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.screenplay" . screenplay-mode)
-  auto-mode-alist))
-Save your .emacs file and launch Emacs. Pressing F5 should place you in
-screenplay-mode. Pressing control-c s will start a new slugline for you,
-control-c a an action block, and control-c d a dialogue block.
-Save a sample screenplay (sample.scp, for example), and then close Emacs. Open
-Emacs again and open a file via the File menu or by using the control-x
-control-f key sequence. Open your sample.scp and note that Emacs opens it in
-screenplay-mode.
-In Dolphin, you can right-click on sample.scp and choose to Open With Emacs,
-and it will be opened in screenplay-mode in Emacs. However, default KDE uses
-the much faster single-click method, so it would be nice if a single click on
-any .scp or .screenplay file would open prompt KDE to launch Emacs, and Emacs
-in turn to open in screenplay mode.
-Emacs is already set for .scp and .screenplay, so only KDE now needs to be
-configured:
-. Open System Settings; open it and select the File Associations panel.
-. Click the Add... button on the left of the panel to add a new file type.
-. Place it in the Text category. It will be placed at the bottom of the text
-    list; select it and configure it on the right side of the panel.
-. You may give it a custom icon, such as something from the Oxygen Icon set
-    that suggests movies or the default Emacs Document icon, and define the
-    file extension as both *.scp and *.screenplay.
-. Give the Application Preference Order a sensible set of applications. The
-    documents are in plain text, so they may be opened in any text editor;
-    Emacs as the first is obvious, Kate and KWrite are likely candidates for
-    fallback applications.
-. Click the Apply button in the lower right corner to save your
-    configuration.
-Now if you click on sample.scp from Dolphin, KDE will open it in Emacs, and
-Emacs will enter screenwriter-mode.
-You now have a screenplay authoring program for Slackermedia, and quite likely
-for any other platform you possibly run.