[TxMt] Re: Screenplay Bundle v3 released

[Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient)]

On Mar 15, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Oliver Taylor wrote:

>>> I wish I had the time to help you solve the MORE / CONT'D feature.
>>> That's be pure awesomenesses.
>>
>> Can you explain this issue?  Maybe someone will take up the charge.
>
> When either a scene or a bit of dialogue spans a page-break  
> indicators are placed in the scene and in the dialogue that tell  
> you the scene, or bit of dialogue, continues on the next page. It  
> looks like this:
>
>
>
> INT. STORE ROOM - NIGHT
>
> Darcy sits alone.
>
>                     DARCY
>           I can't stand just waiting here.
>                 (more)
>
>                                           (CONT'D)
>
> -----------------Page-Break-----------------------
>
> (CONT'D:)
>
>                     DARCY (CONT'D)
>           Give me something, anything...
>
>
>
> The only place this pops up in is when printing to PDF. As of now  
> the PDF creation is handled by PrinceXml, so prince determines  
> where the page-breaks should go. Because prince is deciding where  
> the page-breaks go prince would need to determine when it needs to  
> place the "continued" indicators.
>
> I'm using Prince because it's easy to install and I can leverage  
> the HTML conversion I can do to create the PDF. People have  
> suggested that I could get much more sophesticated odcuments using  
> LaTex but I've found it to be a large download, a pain to install,  
> and yet another document language I'd have to learn. So, I'm not  
> too interested at this point.
>
> But to be frank, this issue is not a priority.

I know you could use some of the fancier page layout capabilities of  
CSS3 to dynamically insert this stuff.
Then you could just print to PDF from Safari of FireFox.

http://alistapart.com/articles/boom

thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
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