Comments on: Scrippets available for testing http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing A ton of useful information about screenwriting. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:31:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hugh Macdonald http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-159305 Hugh Macdonald Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:07 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-159305 <p>oops... okay - I just read a little further down my RSS feed to find out that you'd already changed this...</p> <p>My apologies for jumping the gun a little on this one!</p> 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!

]]> By: Hugh Macdonald http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-159303 Hugh Macdonald Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:01:21 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-159303 <p>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?</p> 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?

]]> By: John http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-159284 John Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:27:22 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-159284 <p>[scrippet] And how. [/scrippet]</p>

And how.

]]> By: John http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-159269 John Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:04:45 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-159269 <p>This is outside the scrippet box.</p> <p>[scrippet] Now we're inside.</p> <p>EXT. PARK - DAY</p> <p>A bear sits on a bench.</p> <p>BEAR You forgot to mention that I’m anthropomorphic.</p> <p>ME Sorry.</p> <p>BEAR It’s okay.</p> <p>CUT TO:</p> <p>EXT. HOUSE - DAY [/scrippet]</p> 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

]]> By: John http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-159268 John Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:02:25 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-159268 <p>This is outside the scrippet box.</p> <p>[scrippet] Now we're inside.</p> <p>EXT. PARK - DAY</p> <p>A bear sits on a bench.</p> <p>BEAR You forgot to mention that I’m anthropomorphic.</p> <p>ME Sorry.</p> <p>BEAR It’s okay.</p> <p>A GUNSHOT.</p> <p>The bear falls, dead.</p> <p>CUT TO:</p> <p>EXT. HOUSE - DAY [/scrippet]</p> 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

]]> By: Craig Mazin http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-159149 Craig Mazin Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:18:50 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-159149 <p>You know I'm in. Lemme know when it's mine mine mine to install.</p> You know I’m in. Lemme know when it’s mine mine mine to install.

]]> By: John http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-158936 John Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:21:16 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-158936 <p>@David:</p> <p>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.)</p> <p>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.</p> <p>We might try "monospace" and see if it defaults nicely.</p> @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.

]]> By: David Anaxagoras http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-158935 David Anaxagoras Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:59:05 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-158935 <p>Andreas, I don't know how the new plugin works, but with old way, you could just add:</p> <p>text-transform: uppercase;</p> <p>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?</p> <p>John, Courier looks butt-ugly on Windows. Isn't there someway to make this look good on both platforms? </p> <p>Oh, and of course I'd be happy to test the plug-in on the new blog.</p> 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.

]]> By: Karni http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-158928 Karni Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:21:15 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-158928 <p>I'd be happy to test it out on my wordpress blog!</p> I’d be happy to test it out on my wordpress blog!

]]> By: John http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-158925 John Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:08:46 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-158925 <p>We have a fix in the works for the ellipses, which should be better than great.</p> We have a fix in the works for the ellipses, which should be better than great.

]]> By: John http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/scrippets-available-for-testing/comment-page-1#comment-158913 John Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:49:51 +0000 http://johnaugust.com/?p=1159#comment-158913 <p>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.</p> 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.

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