Not sure if anyone
else in the world enjoys perl and writing screenplays, but I have written some
code using my own tagging language to help format screenplays (I wrote lots of
tags that tt could handle before I heard of tt). I plan on switching my
stuff over to tt and cpaning it. My stuff basically sets up some styles,
parses out dialogue and the like and switches it to the appropriate style.
Common tags look like
<dia
fred>
You paid how
much?
</dia>
which gets changed
to
<DIV CLASS=character_name>
FRED
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS=dia>
You paid how much?
</DIV>
FRED
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS=dia>
You paid how much?
</DIV>
or
<description>JOAN is walking down a busy street, talking on her
cell phone</description>
<DIV CLASS=description> JOAN is walking down a busy street, talking on her cell phone </DIV>
I am guessing this
is a good spot for a filter, which I have never used, but will look
into.
Something I
currently can't handle, but would like to is pagination. Like when a
character is speaking and their dialogue carries over, there are rules to show
the continuation is going to occur, and that it did occur. One of those
things that is painful to change if you add more dialogue and had things hard
coded.
There are lots of
screenplay writing formatting rules and I would like to get them all right using
a standard library like tt. Just wondering if anyone has ever worked on
similar stuff or if anyone had feedback on doing the above.
Thanks,
Earl
