Re: Any other screenwriters?

2013-03-10 Thread richarddooling
Thanks all! I have the ruby script working pretty well and may indeed just tamper with that and perhaps learn a little ruby along the way. The goal is a command-line converter, hence Trelby would be nice as a converter of last resort, but I would never use it as an editor. The whole point is to

Re: Any other screenwriters?

2013-03-09 Thread Rick Johnson
On Friday, March 8, 2013 11:36:05 PM UTC-6, richard...@gmail.com wrote: > Noted. But it seems to be the syntax the screenwriters and > their programmers have settled on for now. It's all > working pretty well. Just no Python or command-line > implementations yet. I didn't post seeking help to make

Trelby (was: Any other screenwriters?)

2013-03-09 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2013-03-08 13:07, Rick Dooling wrote: > However, most of these programs are "apps" with closed GUIs, and of course > I'm looking for a way to do the same thing with Python and call it from the > command-line or from within Vim You should consider taking a look at Trelby. It is free software (

Re: Any other screenwriters?

2013-03-08 Thread richarddooling
On Friday, March 8, 2013 9:41:57 PM UTC-6, Rick Johnson wrote: > First impression of Fountain: TOTAL CRAP! Noted. But it seems to be the syntax the screenwriters and their programmers have settled on for now. It's all working pretty well. Just no Python or command-line implementations yet. I d

Re: Any other screenwriters?

2013-03-08 Thread Rick Johnson
On Friday, March 8, 2013 3:07:59 PM UTC-6, Rick Dooling wrote: > I am an amateur Python person, and I usually learn just > enough to make one writing tool or another as I go, > because mainly I'm a writer, not a programmer. Recently, > I've been exploring a markdown syntax called Fountain for > scr

Re: Any other screenwriters?

2013-03-08 Thread richarddooling
Thank you, Chris. I was trying to avoid the xcode since I know didley about that too, but I'll download it and see if I can get it to run. THANKS AGAIN Rick On Friday, March 8, 2013 3:51:44 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: > > > To that end

Re: Any other screenwriters?

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: > To that end, I would like to take this Ruby script (which works pretty well, > but throws errors in Mac OS X; some Ruby ones and some Prince ones) and > convert it to Python so I can fix it myself, because I don't know Ruby at > all, and wou

Any other screenwriters?

2013-03-08 Thread Rick Dooling
Hello all, I am an amateur Python person, and I usually learn just enough to make one writing tool or another as I go, because mainly I'm a writer, not a programmer. Recently, I've been exploring a markdown syntax called Fountain for screenwriters http://fountain.io/syntax https://github.com/