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| - | screenwriter.el | ||
| - | 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. | ||
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| - | 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. | ||
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| - | 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: | ||
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| - | <code> | ||
| - | $ 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 | ||
| - | </code> | ||
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| - | 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. | ||
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| - | Using and Optimizing Screenwriter-mode | ||
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| - | There are three elements in screenplays: | ||
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| - | * 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) | ||
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| - | Accessing each element is done with keyboard commands that can be easily | ||
| - | remembered with the mnemonic SAD: | ||
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| - | * Control-c s Slugline | ||
| - | * Control-c a Action (Screen direction) | ||
| - | * Control-c d Dialogue | ||
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| - | Additionally, you can use Control-c t to insert Transitions (indented and | ||
| - | capitalized blocks for CUT TO:, FADE IN, FADE OUT, and so on). | ||
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| - | 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. | ||
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| - | Note | ||
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| - | Alternate keybindings for each element type centers around the tab key: | ||
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| - | * tab return Slugline | ||
| - | * tab tab return Action | ||
| - | * tab tab tab return Dialogue | ||
| - | * tab tab tab tab return Transition | ||
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| - | Streamlining Screenwriter-mode | ||
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| - | Make screenwriter-mode a quicker launch from within emacs by adding a global | ||
| - | keyboard shortcut for it, and defining the expected file suffix: | ||
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| - | <code> | ||
| - | ; a quick and easy way to enter screenplay-mode | ||
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| - | (global-set-key (kbd "<f5>") | ||
| - | 'screenplay-mode) | ||
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| - | ; open any file with a .scp or .screenplay suffix in | ||
| - | screenplay-mode | ||
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| - | (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.scp" . screenplay-mode) | ||
| - | auto-mode-alist)) | ||
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| - | (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.screenplay" . screenplay-mode) | ||
| - | auto-mode-alist)) | ||
| - | </code> | ||
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| - | 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. | ||
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| - | 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. | ||
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| - | 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. | ||
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| - | Emacs is already set for .scp and .screenplay, so only KDE now needs to be | ||
| - | configured: | ||
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| - | -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. | ||
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| - | Now if you click on sample.scp from Dolphin, KDE will open it in Emacs, and Emacs will enter screenwriter-mode. | ||
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| - | You now have a screenplay authoring program for Slackermedia, and quite likely for any other platform you possibly run. | ||