I'm creating a bundle for screenwriting and I need help finishing it. I need your Kung-Fu.
I sent out the word once before and nothing happened, so I made a crappy screencast and now we'll if if anything comes of it.
Info here: http://ollieman.net/?p=80 screencast here: http://ollieman.net/files/screencast.mov
Oliver, On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Oliver Taylor wrote:
I'm creating a bundle for screenwriting and I need help finishing it. I need your Kung-Fu.
I sent out the word once before and nothing happened, so I made a crappy screencast and now we'll if if anything comes of it.
The screencast is very nice! The main problem for me is that I don't know the first thing about what things a screenwriting bundle should be doing. If you ask very particular questions about how certain tasks could be accomplished, I'm sure you'll find that lots of people will be able to help you. But most of us are just not familiar with screenwriting software, and screenplay formats in general. I actually looked at your bundle the last time you posted, but couldn't really understand what most commands are for, since I've never in my life seen a screenplay. Seeing the screencast makes some things click. So please, set some particular goals for commands/conversion tools, and you have a good chance of getting people to help out. For instance, what would you want the conversion tool to do? Give us some examples of how the result should look. You've done a great work so far, and it would be nice to see this bundle pushed even further.
Info here: http://ollieman.net/?p=80 screencast here: http://ollieman.net/files/screencast.mov
Haris
Il giorno 23/gen/06, alle ore 21:46, Oliver Taylor ha scritto:
I'm creating a bundle for screenwriting and I need help finishing it. I need your Kung-Fu.
it goes like this: we don't know jack about the specific domain, but it looks like you're pretty into it and got nice ideas and enough skills to understand what's going on behind TM scenes :)
if you want us (the Almighty Community) to help you, keep in mind that we've got no specific knowledge in your field. I read you would like to provide nicely formatted output: show us a sample and tell us where you got lost, someone will be able to help you ^_^
speaking of what, I suggest you to go the HTML way -- by using different stylesheets, you can provide both printed and on-screen output from a single file. not everyone (expecially in your field) has a latex setup on his machine, and requesting a ~50 MB download you're restricting the audience way too much.
ciao,
domenico
On 23 Jan 2006, at 21:33, Domenico Carbotta wrote:
Il giorno 23/gen/06, alle ore 21:46, Oliver Taylor ha scritto:
I'm creating a bundle for screenwriting and I need help finishing it. I need your Kung-Fu.
it goes like this: we don't know jack about the specific domain, but it looks like you're pretty into it and got nice ideas and enough skills to understand what's going on behind TM scenes :)
if you want us (the Almighty Community) to help you, keep in mind that we've got no specific knowledge in your field. I read you would like to provide nicely formatted output: show us a sample and tell us where you got lost, someone will be able to help you ^_^
speaking of what, I suggest you to go the HTML way -- by using different stylesheets, you can provide both printed and on-screen output from a single file. not everyone (expecially in your field) has a latex setup on his machine, and requesting a ~50 MB download you're restricting the audience way too much.
ciao,
domenico
There are a couple of LaTeX classes that handle this:
ScriptTex at http://www.aidtopia.com/software/scripttex/index.html and ScreenScript at http://www.jrdemers.com/screenscript/screenscript.html
Maybe these could provide a starting point?
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