Fountain Mode

Fountain Mode is a screenwriting program for GNU Emacs using the Fountain plain text markup format.

For more information on the Fountain format: https://fountain.io

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 formats
• Traditional TAB auto-completion writing style
• Highly accurate pagination calculation
• Navigation by section, scene, character name, or page
• Integration with outline to fold/cycle visibility of sections and scenes
• Integration with electric-pair-mode to insert emphasis delimiters with single key (i.e. * or _)
• Integration with imenu (sections, scene headings, notes)
• Intergration with auto-insert for title page metadata
• Automatically add/remove character (CONT'D)
• Toggle syntax highlighting of each element
• Toggle visibility of emphasis and syntax markup
• Optionally display scene numbers in the right margin

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

Requirements

• Emacs 24.4
• seq 2.20 (part of Emacs 25.1+)

Exporting

Earlier versions of Fountain Mode had export functionality, but this was not very good and is better handled via interfacing with external shell tools, such as:

• afterwriting (JavaScript)
• Wrap (Go)
• screenplain (Python 3)
• Textplay (Ruby, requires PrinceXML for PDF)

The option fountain-export-command-profiles provides some shell commands to interface with these tools, but you are encouraged to edit or completely replace these to suit your own needs. The format is simple while still allowing for a lot of flexibility.

Installation

The latest stable release of Fountain Mode is available via MELPA-stable. First, add MELPA-stable to your package archives:

M-x customize-option RET package-archives RET

Insert an entry named melpa-stable with URL: https://stable.melpa.org/packages/

You can then find the latest stable version of fountain-mode in the list returned by:

M-x list-packages RET

If you prefer the latest but perhaps unstable version, do the above using MELPA.

Advanced Installation

Download the latest tagged release, move this file into your load-path and add to your init.el file:

(require 'fountain-mode)

If you wish to contribute to or alter Fountain Mode's code, clone the repository into your load-path and require as above:

git clone https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode.git

Bugs and Feature Requests

Send me an email (address in the package header). For bugs, please ensure you can reproduce with:

$ emacs -Q -l fountain-mode.el

Known issues are tracked with FIXME comments in the source.