It seems every good option is paid, and all others are either discontinued (trelby, fountain) or filled with commercial and AI tools (Story Architect)

This is weird and discouraging, coming from the novel world where you could use a plain markdown editor and export it to epub/pdf/whatever you need. Anyone know of something better for screenwriting?

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[–] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Im not familiar with screenwriting. Can you elaborate on whats involved and whats expected in a tool for scripting?

[–] DJSpunTheDisc@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I don't know exactly which is why I'm confused, most people there say you must use a dedicated editor instead of plain text or google docs. Isn't it all just text?

[–] moritz@l.deltaa.xyz 10 points 8 months ago

There is Fountain which is basically Markdown for screenwriting.

They have a list of apps supporting the format: https://fountain.io/apps/

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 points 8 months ago

You might want to give emacs a shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM6voNQdwY8

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is probably something LaTeX based. I doubt you will find any writing tools specifically marketed for screenwriting in the FOSS world if they could just as well be used for dozens of other writing tasks.

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

What makes a script need a special word precessor? I'm a bit of a word processor freak so I can probably give a rec

[–] skilltheamps@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't get your second paragraph. There are many markdown editors, and you can use their inbuilt methods or pandoc to convert that to epub/pdf/whatever. What features are missing from those editors?

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think you misunderstood their statement. They have used simple markdown editors before which are basic but had the export function. Now they are looking for something more advanced which are in line with what the industry is using.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

KIT Scenarist seems good to me, despite its creators ditching it for starc.

or filled with commercial and AI tools (Story Architect)

Why not just ignore these tools and use the free ones?