{"id":9918,"date":"2021-08-19T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9918"},"modified":"2021-08-19T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:51:43","slug":"emacs-for-screenwriters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9918","title":{"rendered":"Emacs for Screenwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers know, I\u2019m fascinated with how non-technical users employ Emacs in their work. Paul Rankin has a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Be1hE_pQL4w\">how to set up fountain-mode for screenwriting<\/a>. Artistic people are like the rest of us in that they like things the way they are used to and are not anxious to embrace new methods or formats. Especially not new formats. If their work product has always looked like <b>A<\/b>, they don\u2019t want to hear about making it look like <b>B<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rnkn\/fountain-mode\">Fountain mode<\/a> is a very nice package for writing screen scripts with Emacs. Rankin doesn\u2019t like its out-of-the-box look so he made a video on how to make its appearance and output be more like what screenwriters are used to. Initially, I was a little put off that he used the customize interface to make his changes. It made it hard to follow what he was doing and seemed to indicate that he was an Emacs neophyte.<\/p>\n<p>Except that he\u2019s the author of fountain-mode and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rnkn\/olivetti\">olivetti-mode<\/a> and obviously knows what he\u2019s talking about. In retrospect, I realized that he was using the customize interface because that\u2019s what the typical member of his audience would use. If you\u2019re a screenwriter and looking for an efficient and pleasant way writing your scripts, you should give fountain mode a try. And watch Rankin\u2019s video. It will show you how to make it like what you\u2019re used to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers know, I\u2019m fascinated with how non-technical users employ Emacs in their work. Paul Rankin has a video on how to set up fountain-mode for screenwriting. Artistic people are like the rest of us in that they like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-9918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9919,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918\/revisions\/9919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}