Re: Screenplay formatter?

dmccunney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.palm.peditors
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On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM, daleblizz <daleblizz-/[email protected]> wrote:

> What I'm curious about is if this could be used to create a
> screenplay formatter.

<...>

> 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.

How big is the average screenplay?

I don't know offhand if pedit can be programmed through pscript to do
what you want.  But one basic difference between pedit and WordSmith
is that pedit only edits Palm Memopad records.  Depending upon which
Palm OS version you have, those are 4K or 32K in size.  Wordsmith can
edit Memopad records, Palm "doc" files, or converted RTF files, and
the latter two don't have the length restrictions.

I use and love WordSmith, and I'm tickled that screenwriters use it,
but I'm not sure I'd want to try crafting a screenplay on a Palm OS
PDA.

What sort of problems are encountered dumping a WordSmith file into a
screenplay formatter?
______
Dennis

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