Fountainhead

Contextual screenwriting environment that leverages the speed of Sublime Text and the readability of Fountain, enabling the user to just write.

Inspired by Jonathan Poritsky's Fountain for Sublime Text package.

Compatible with Sublime Text 2 and 3. Optimized for Sublime Text 3.

Installation

Option A: Package Control

1. Install Package Control.
2. Select Package Control: Install Package from Tools > Command Palette (⇧⌘P).
3. Select Fountainhead.

Option B: GitHub

1. Download the ZIP of this repository and uncompress it.
2. Move the uncompressed Fountainhead folder to the appropriate packages directory:
   • In Sublime Text, select: Sublime Text > Preferences > Browse Packages...
   • Place the Fountainhead folder inside the open Packages directory.
3. Relaunch Sublime Text.

Quickstart

1. Open your Fountain file.
2. Verify that "Fountainhead" appears in the bottom right-hand corner.
   • If it doesn't, you can click on the offending syntax and change it to "Fountain", or you can use the menu: View > Syntax > Open all with current extension as > Fountain.
3. Write!

Functionality

Fountain Syntax

The Fountain Syntax is a plaintext markup for screenwriters, invented by John August & Stu Maschiwitz. Take a look at the detailed Fountain spec or check out this handy cheatsheet.

Capitalization

On return character elements & sluglines get autocapitalized.

Smart Line Skipping

Fountainhead is smart about inserting blank lines for the Fountain parser. So if you hit enter after a slugline, action, dialogue, transition, or centered text it will add an extra line automatically. But enter after a title page Key: Value pair, !Forced Action, ~Lyrics, or a Characther name (with or without @), [[Notes]], ==Synopses, or #Sections — you'll be get a normal single carriage return.

Page Scroll

Settings

How to update settings

Keybindings (Mac/Windows/Linux)

Lists

Update your Character and Scene lists from the Command Palette with Fountainhead: Update ... super + shift + s Show Scene List super + shift + c Show Character List

Show/Hide Boneyard, Synopses, and Notes

ctrl + k, ctrl + / Toggle Boneyard ctrl + k, ctrl + = Toggle Synopses ctrl + k, ctrl + [ Toggle Notes

Text

[Pairs], Pairs, Pairs all auto-wrap super + k, super + u convert to UPPERCASE super + k, super + l convert to lowercase

Navigation

shift + space Move the cursor forward (same as right arrow key)
shift + enter Move cursor down a line (same as down arrow key)
tab Move outside of notes, parentheticals/parentheses, quotes, and underlined/italic/bold text

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