Protip: procrastination may be very wholesome should you do it proper. This morning I’m procrastinating my episode 3 re-write by meal prepping for the week and cleansing up across the condominium. And now, by dev logging, which is way simpler than script writing as a result of my requirements for the log are decrease.

Here’s a screenshot of me rewriting episode 2:

That screenshot reveals my second draft on the left, and the primary draft on the best for comparability/copying and pasting components I can reuse.

I write my screenplays in Fountain, a plaintext language, as a result of I would like each one in all my tasks to be model managed and proprietary scriptwriting applications like Scrivener and Final Draft, whereas cool, use non-portable codecs that do not model management as effectively. Plus, I can do my writing in Visual Studio Code, which has the massive benefit that I can prolong it with my very own plugins. (When I began this venture, the Fountain information have been truly exported from an Emacs org mode file, which is an extended story.)

For rewriting episode 3, I made a decision to strive utilizing the customized VSCode plugin that I applied for the larger objective of changing the Fountain scripts to “sport” code. (I feel introducing this plugin will make extra sense if I begin with the instance of rewriting a script earlier than I clarify that fountain->code conversion course of.)

I name this the ktxt2 editor. The okay stands for kiss, my customized programming language that powers this complete venture. The txt2 stands for two textual content information in one–because this editor/the .ktxt2 file format hyperlinks 2 textual content information collectively in a single. The left aspect is a “supply” file, and the best aspect is an “output” file. Blocks of supply are linked to blocks of output, which may reference the supply block as $supply, or outline their very own manually entered textual content. So the ktxt2 file within the screenshot ought to export this:

The 4 clean strains are as a result of

within the supply stands for nn, and the output file on the best has its personal line breaks following $supply which incorporates the unique supply block.

Well, ktxt2 SHOULD export the block above, however I’m all the time breaking it, so simply now it was truly tousled. Whoops.

ktxt2 may also have difficult logic in an output block:

I was doing a code conversion like that (it is a regex alternative), however I made the best name to do it less complicated now:

More on how these conversions work later.