Screenplay formatter?

Hello, I just found out about pEdit last night and I'm at the "Wow, 
that blows me away" stage.  I'm nearly a complete idiot when it comes 
to any kind of computer programming, but have managed to do some 
things with a lot of time and patience.  Even with the little I know 
about pEdit so far it's obvious that it's very useful.  (And I 
haven't scratched the surface.)

What I'm curious about is if this could be used to create a 
screenplay formatter.  One of the most popular commercial screenplay 
formatters is Movie Magic Screenwriter.  The font is always courier. 
At the beginning after you type fade in: it knows to put the letters 
in upper case. A return brings you to a scene heading and you get a 
drop down with the options INT., EXT., etc. When you type it assumes 
INT. and automatically puts that in upper case, as well as what 
follows.  So you type in a location KITCHEN (for example) and then 
hit the enter key again, which gives you another drop down with DAY, 
NIGHT, etc.  Once again you type first letter and you get the word. 
(d = DAY.)

So the scene heading looks like this:
INT. KITCHEN -- DAY
What you actually keyed in was: Enter  i  kitchen  Enter  d

Enter again and you're taken to the an "Action" paragraph.  Which is 
basically just a paragraph.  What you type is what you get.  Enter 
again and it assumes another Action paragraph. If you hit Enter twice 
it assumes another Scene heading (and drops down with a list of 
locations you've already used.) So you can either type new location 
or (in this example) type k and it will give you the option to use 
KITCHEN again.

If you instead of hitting Enter a second time you hit the Tab key it 
assumes you want a Character Name.  It takes you to the Center of the 
page and assumes upper case.  Typing henry will give you HENRY. Enter 
again and it takes you to a Dialogue line, centered and directly 
below the Character Name.

Enter again and you're back to an action line.  Basically this 
repeats through the rest of the script.  After you have entered at 
least one Character Names, it also gives you option of selecting from 
a drop-down list of previously used Character Names.

FADE IN:

INT. KITCHEN -- DAY

Action lines go here.  A description of the characters, the 
setting and what's happening.  GATTO, a white cat.

                     GATTO
         Meow, meow, meow, purr, growl,
         whatever.  Dialogue.

Sorry for the long, confusing post, but is it possible to use pEdit 
to program this kind of formatter for the Palm operating system?  
Screenwriters use Wordsmith and paste it into screenplay formatters, 
but it usually takes a lot of work cleaning up the problems.

I don't mind taking the time to learn pEdit and write the program 
myself, if it's capable of doing this, but I thought I'd check with 
experienced people before I got too involved.

Either way pEdit is a great program.
 


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