TheTakes
TheTakes is an online production management tool that imports and exports Fountain screenplays.
View ArticleHow Does Fountain Work?
Fountain is not an app. It’s not even really a file format. It’s a simple set of straightforward rules for writing a screenplay in plain text. If you opened a text editing app, or even email, and...
View ArticleWhy Fountain?
Once you start working with plain text documents, you realize the power of their infinite portability and compatibility. You can edit them anywhere, on just about any device, and never break anything....
View ArticleSyntax? I’m a screenwriter Jim, not a nerd.
Fountain is designed to “just work” if you simply typed some text that looked like a screenplay. You would only need to learn the syntax if you wanted to take advantage of the “power user” features,...
View ArticleDon’t Final Draft, Movie Magic Screenwriter, Celtx, and many other...
Yes, but this isn’t enough. There’s no support for text styles, dual dialogue, or centered text. These things are silently stripped out and lost. Fountain is robust enough to be the primary working...
View ArticleWhat about pagination?
Most screenplay file formats do not store pagination, except for explicit page breaks. Instead, the apps perform the pagination on-the-fly as you work. Fountain follows this standard, and only expects...
View ArticleWhy should Fountain support a title page?
One goal of Fountain is that you could write an entire screenplay with it, and easily export and/or print something that a colleague could read and provide feedback. A simple title page with contact...
View ArticleWhat exactly is the relationship between Fountain and Markdown?
Fountain, formerly known as Screenplay Markdown, is inspired by John Gruber’s super cool Markdown language, and uses some of its conventions, but Fountain is not Markdown. There’s no use in converting...
View ArticleI like to put two spaces after periods. Because it is the right way to do...
You are among friends. Fountain respects whatever your spacebar habits may be.
View ArticleWhat file extension should be used for Fountain files?
Fountain files are UTF-8 text files with the extension.fountain, .txt, or .spmd.
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