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Looking for a script processor that's completely foss and maintained (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems every good option is paid, and all others are either discontinued (trelby, fountain) or filled with commercial and AI tools (Story Architect)

This is weird and discouraging, coming from the novel world where you could use a plain markdown editor and export it to epub/pdf/whatever you need. Anyone know of something better for screenwriting?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Im not familiar with screenwriting. Can you elaborate on whats involved and whats expected in a tool for scripting?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I don't know exactly which is why I'm confused, most people there say you must use a dedicated editor instead of plain text or google docs. Isn't it all just text?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

There is Fountain which is basically Markdown for screenwriting.

They have a list of apps supporting the format: https://fountain.io/apps/

[–] taladar 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is probably something LaTeX based. I doubt you will find any writing tools specifically marketed for screenwriting in the FOSS world if they could just as well be used for dozens of other writing tasks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You might want to give emacs a shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM6voNQdwY8

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=IM6voNQdwY8

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

What makes a script need a special word precessor? I'm a bit of a word processor freak so I can probably give a rec

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't get your second paragraph. There are many markdown editors, and you can use their inbuilt methods or pandoc to convert that to epub/pdf/whatever. What features are missing from those editors?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think you misunderstood their statement. They have used simple markdown editors before which are basic but had the export function. Now they are looking for something more advanced which are in line with what the industry is using.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

KIT Scenarist seems good to me, despite its creators ditching it for starc.

or filled with commercial and AI tools (Story Architect)

Why not just ignore these tools and use the free ones?