{"id":36,"date":"2018-01-21T11:47:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T11:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=36"},"modified":"2018-01-21T11:47:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T11:47:03","slug":"fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/21\/fountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing my screenplays in the markup language <a href=\"https:\/\/fountain.io\/\">Fountain<\/a> because I find the tedium of learning to use software other people wrote to be painful and demoralizing.\u00a0 What I like about Fountain is I can write in any text program, then run the formatter on it.<\/p>\n<p>I do all my work on Linux, so needed something that would run there.\u00a0 I wanted something to run from the command line, which is one of the reasons I switched to Linux in the first place.\u00a0 After much research, I got the program for conversion off <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ifrost\/afterwriting-labs\/releases\">GitHub<\/a>, then followed the instructions on <a href=\"https:\/\/softwarerecs.stackexchange.com\/questions\/17402\/convert-fountain-files-to-pdf-files\">StackExchange<\/a> to install and use.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been very happy with the results.\u00a0 Now I can write in Google docs without any need to do more than adhere to a few stylistic elements, then run the conversion script and have a nice (if a bit large, the &#8216;magic&#8217; seems to be done with a plethora of spaces; it compresses nicely, though) PDF file beautifully formatted.<\/p>\n<p>As a BTW, I found, once I felt I was done editing the text version, that if I reviewed the formated version I could pick up a lot more typos, etc., not to mention catching the places I didn&#8217;t to the markup correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing my screenplays in the markup language Fountain because I find the tedium of learning to use software other people wrote to be painful and demoralizing.\u00a0 What I like about Fountain is I can write in any text program, then run the formatter on it. I do all my work on Linux, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/21\/fountain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fountain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-screenplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}