trelby

Chapter 1.  Trelby

Strengths

Solid

Formats screenplays as you write, with all the common features of a
screenplay authoring application.

GPL

An open licensed application that relies on open source technology. Unlike
competitors, it makes no attempt to lock you out of your own data, or to
sell a cloud subscription to you.

See Also

Screenwriter Fountain

A free word processor for screenplays, Trelby is an application with all the usual features of a screenwriting application, including a character name database, basic scene reporting, PDF exporting, and more.

The advantage to using a dedicated screenwriting application is that all standard formatting is applied automatically for you, with minimal amounts of interaction. Character names are remembered for you and auto-completion simplifies concerns, for instance, about whether you called that day player “Evil Henchman” or just “Henchman”.

Of all the applications in multimedia, screenwriting applications are the least likely to require cross-compatibility. Unless you are collaborating with another writer, you will probably never send out the project file. Since Trelby can export to PDF, it's probably everything you need in a screenwriting application.

Trelby is also Fountain compatible.

Trelby is a Python application and can be installed from slackbuilds.org.