Scrippets available for testing
I won’t throw around terms like “beta,” but if you’re interested in checking out what we have working on the scrippet front, you can visit the test blog and leave a comment to see how it works.
You can leave feedback either here or there.
There’s still more testing to be done to make sure it works well with various themes and plug-ins, but by the end of the week, we may seed it to a few other sites. If you have a Wordpress blog and would like to try it out, leave a comment (including a link to your site).
I’d like to thank Will and Andy for their hard work over the weekend, and others who have contributed solutions, some of which still have to be tested.
NOTE: The plugin is only installed at the test blog, and isn’t yet installed on johnaugust.com.
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August 25th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I gave the scrippet a try and it seems to work really well. A bit annoying to type in all caps when I’m used to celtx fixing that with a press of the tab key, but considering the context and how fast you guys came up with a working solution this is awesome! =)
August 25th, 2008 at 11:35 am
I’m seeing some weird black blocks. They’re most noticeable in the “If this works, John gets a Nobel” post.
Other than that, it looks great.
Let me know if you want a screenshot.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:37 am
@Grant:
Please, link to or email (ask@johnaugust.com) a screenshot if you’re seeing something weird.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I would love to add this plugin to my blog. http://www.filmschooljournal.com
Thanks.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I see those black blocks that Grant is seeing too, on IE. The ellipses are being turned into html entities and the font that IE is using for monospace doesn’t have anything for them. Firefox on the same machine seems to deal with them fine, so I’m not entirely sure what’s going on. I see two potential solutions. One, try and tweak the css to favor a different font which may or may not work, and two, try to make wordpress not turn everything into entities willy-nilly. Of course, there’s always three, curse IE under our breath.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
It’s in the css. I’m guessing it doesn’t show up if you’re using a mac. If I switch the order of “Courier New” and ‘Courier’ in the font section things seem to work, although that indicates you should probably get rid of the “Courier New” entry altogether.
EDIT: It’s actually Courier that needs to be removed. Not “Courier New”.
.scrippet p {
}
August 25th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I’d like to give it a shot on my blog. Seems like scrippets should work as well for comic book scripts as it does for screenplays.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I would love to add this to my blog once non-beta “beta” testing is done :)
http://www.benjaminrosenfeld.com
Thanks, Ben
August 25th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
For now, we could swap the Courier and Courier New — but Courier New is butt-ugly on the Mac. So I’d prefer to keep the three periods as three periods. We’ll check whether it’s Markdown or Wordpress itself that is encoding them.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
We have a fix in the works for the ellipses, which should be better than great.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I’d be happy to test it out on my wordpress blog!
August 25th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Andreas, I don’t know how the new plugin works, but with old way, you could just add:
text-transform: uppercase;
under the appropriate elements in the CSS. If we still have control of CSS, and the all-caps aren’t some sort of vital clue to the script about how to format certain elements, maybe we still can do it that way?
John, Courier looks butt-ugly on Windows. Isn’t there someway to make this look good on both platforms?
Oh, and of course I’d be happy to test the plug-in on the new blog.
August 25th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
@David:
Scene headers need to be uppercase so that it fails well in the feeds. Remember, feeds don’t get CSS, so we want people seeing it in the feeds to be able to read it okay. (And we deliberately don’t change what gets written to the database. It’s strictly a display thing.)
Can you send me screenshots with it in Courier and Courier New on Windows? Because the apostrophes are a deal-breaker for Courier New on the Mac. I really don’t want to do platform-sniffing.
We might try “monospace” and see if it defaults nicely.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
You know I’m in. Lemme know when it’s mine mine mine to install.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
This is outside the scrippet box.
Now we’re inside.
EXT. PARK – DAY
A bear sits on a bench.
BEAR
You forgot to mention that I’m anthropomorphic.
ME
Sorry.
BEAR
It’s okay.
A GUNSHOT.
The bear falls, dead.
CUT TO:
EXT. HOUSE – DAY
August 27th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
This is outside the scrippet box.
Now we’re inside.
EXT. PARK – DAY
A bear sits on a bench.
BEAR
You forgot to mention that I’m anthropomorphic.
ME
Sorry.
BEAR
It’s okay.
CUT TO:
EXT. HOUSE – DAY
August 27th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
And how.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:01 am
The RSS feeds for them obviously don’t pick up the CSS…. But the formatting is (I guess) the same as they were written in, which feels a little odd…. Any way of giving them a little bit of straight forward text formatting for the RSS feed?
August 28th, 2008 at 12:28 am
oops… okay – I just read a little further down my RSS feed to find out that you’d already changed this…
My apologies for jumping the gun a little on this one!