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What is "Fountain"?

I'm not going to do a good job at explaining it, so just look at this page.

So what is "Better fountain"?

"Better fountain" is an extension for a really popular text editor (visual studio code) which makes it even easier and faster to write screenplays with the fountain syntax.

Getting started

Here are a few super simple steps to get started:

  1. Download and install Visual Studio Code.

  2. Go here and click on install.

  3. That's it! Now you can create a new file which finishes with the ".fountain" file extension (to do this in visual studio code, go to File>New File and then File>Save as).

Tips

  • Everything in visual studio code is done through the "command palette" which you can bring up by clicking on View>Command Palette or by pressing on the F1 key.

  • Here are some useful commands:

    • "Fountain: Show Screenplay Live Preview": Show a preview of what the printed script would look like, in real-time.
    • "Fountain: Export Screenplay PDF": Export your screenplay to a pdf file.
    • "Fold all" > Folds all the scenes so that you can only see the header. "Unfold all" does the contrary.

  • If you want to know how long your screenplay is (very approximately) just look in the bottom right corner. See the "00:00:00" next to the Line and Column positions? That's more or less the length of your screenplay (in hours:minutes:seconds).

  • For imitation of a Typewriter mode you can add below code to settings.json file (File>Preferences>Settings):

"[fountain]": {
    "editor.wordWrapColumn": 57,   
    "editor.wordWrap": "wordWrapColumn",
    "editor.quickSuggestions": false,
    "editor.lineNumbers": "off",
    "editor.folding": true,
    "editor.glyphMargin": true,
}

and run View>Appearance>Centered Layout

  • By default, Visual Studio Code's suggestion system pre-selects the most recently suggested selection instead of the first suggestion. In order to make the most out of betterfountain's character suggestion feature, add the following line to the settings.json file (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P or F1, Open Settings (JSON)):
    "[fountain]": {
        "editor.suggestSelection": "first"
    }