Fountain Mode

Fountain Mode is a complete screenwriting environment for GNU Emacs using the Fountain markup format. For more information on the Fountain markup format, visit http://fountain.io.

Pictured: Big Fish by John August in Fountain Mode (using imenu-list and Olivetti minor modes)

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
Export to HTML, LaTeX, Final Draft (FDX), or Fountain
Export to standalone document or snippet
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
Add/remove automatic continuation string to successively speaking characters
Navigation by section, scene, character name, or page
3 levels of element syntax highlighting
Automatic loading for *.fountain files
Support for both official and legacy commenting (boneyard) syntax
Include or omit a title page
Emphasis (bold, italic, underlined text)
Toggle visibility of emphasis delimiters and syntax characters
Everything is customizable

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

More information on outlining here: https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode/wiki/Outlining

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

For more, see the Wiki.

Requirements

Emacs 24.4
LaTeX packages for PDF export: geometry fontspec titling fancyhdr marginnote ulem xstring oberdiek

Installation

For users on OS X with no experience with Emacs, see the Absolute Beginner's Guide (OS X).

The latest stable release of Fountain Mode is available via MELPA-stable.

Alternately, download the latest release, move the files into your load-path and add the following line to your .emacs or 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 the following command:

sudo apt install elpa-fountain-mode

Bugs and Feature Requests

Please raise an issue on Issues.

Emacs currently has a bug with visual-line-mode that produces erratic navigation behavior when displaying very long lines. More information here: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23879

Roadmap

See Milestones.

History

See Releases.

sten0 / fountain-mode