Fountain Mode

Fountain Mode is a scriptwriting program for GNU Emacs using the Fountain plain text markup format.

For more information on the fountain markup format, visit https://fountain.io.

Features

Support for Fountain 1.1 specification
WYSIWYG auto-align elements (display only, does not modify file contents) specific to script format, e.g. screenplay, stageplay or user-defined format
Navigation by section, scene, character name, or page
3 levels of syntax highlighting
Integration with outline to fold/cycle visibility of sections and scenes
Integration with imenu (sections, scene headings, notes)
Intergration with auto-insert for title page metadata
Traditional TAB auto-completion writing style
Automatically add/remove character "(CONT'D)"
Export to plain text, HTML, LaTeX, Final Draft (FDX), or Fountain
Export to standalone document or snippet
Emphasis (bold, italic, underlined text)
Include external files with {{ include: FILENAME }}
Optionally display scene numbers in the right margin
Intelligent insertion of a page breaks
Automatic loading for *.fountain files
Include or omit a title page
Toggle visibility of emphasis delimiters and syntax characters
Everything is customizable

Check out the Nicholl Fellowship sample script exported from Fountain Mode to the following formats:

Most common features are accessible from the menu. For a full list of functions and key-bindings, type C-h m.

Emacs 24.5
LaTeX packages for PDF export: geometry fontspec titling fancyhdr marginnote ulem xstring oberdiek

The latest stable release of Fountain Mode is available via MELPA-stable and can be installed with:

M-x package-install RET fountain-mode RET

Alternately, download the latest release, move this file into your load-path and add to your .emacs/init.el file:

(require 'fountain-mode)

If you prefer the latest but perhaps unstable version, install via MELPA, or clone the repository into your load-path and require as above:

git clone https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode.git

Users of Debian >=10 or Ubuntu >=18.04 can install Fountain Mode with:

sudo apt install elpa-fountain-mode

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