I'm checking out Textmate as a screenwriting application, using the screenwriting bundle. It looks great, and fast, and cheap. But I have a couple of questions. Apologies if they're old chestnuts and please point me to archive posts, wiki or whatever if that's where the answer lies.
1. I'm using a 12 inch iBook and the mandatory font for screenwriting (believe me it is mandatory, and using a different one isn't a possibility) is Courier 12pt. However it's uncomfortably small on my screen. Is there anyway of zooming it up a bit, or do I have to just use a larger font size for editing then whack it down again when I print? Not a disaster if that's the only answer, but I'd like to know if there's a way round it.
2. I've imported a Final Draft script from a text file, and the 'dialogue' paragraphs need new formatting applying. From a brief fiddle around, it looks like every paragraph needs changing to the 'style' (not quite sure if this is the right terminology, but I hope you know what I mean), then reformatting - ie ctrl-4 then ctrl-q in the screenplay bundle. I'd *really* like not to have to do this manually. Is there a search-and-replace stylee way of automating it.
All help and suggestions welcomed.
Matt Hurst