Fountain autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and export to PDF
- Fountain screenplay writing in VS Code!
- It's what I've been using before this, and what I will continue to use for its:
- Export to PDF
- Actual PDF-like Live Preview
- Familiarity with my coding workflows and configurations
- Screenplay statistics (afterwriting-labs integration)
- Repository management, like version control with
git - Writing Fountain directly
- The BetterFountain plugin and IDE editor are both still great UX that I will still use.
- That said,
- I want links to integrate with my Obsidian vault.
- Since Fountain is meant to be written in one long document, it gets bulky. Which leads us to...
A plugin for Obsidian that helps you write and edit novels, screenplays, and other long projects.
- Manage and compile notes into an ordered manuscript!
- Yes! This allows you to write Fountain in separate files! And combines them according to your sequence!
- John August's own Assembler was the original attempt to rectify the issue of Fountain requiring all your content in a single file. It's still an option.
- But Longform integrates with Obsidian and stores your configuration.
- Through Longform's Compile extra features, you can also strip Fountain-incompatible markdown tokens like frontmatter, comments and wikilinks from source files!
- Then you can specify an output file as
out/$1.fountain!- Thanks, @kevboh, for fixing this!
- An ESSENTIAL tool if you're really going to use Obsidian for any writing projects.
An obsidian plugin allowing you to register and view different file extensions in a modular manner.
- Allows you to open
.fountainfiles in the Obsidian editor! - Fountain syntax formatting works!
- But
.fountainfiles are treated like external files, unlike native markdown files that integrate in Obsidian's systems.
Typewriter Scroll Obsidian Plugin
- Automatic scrolling as you type — your cursor/active line stays at a fixed point on your screen. No more flickering eyes.