Fountain Format: Lines Per Page

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ivo.welch

16 Aug, 2024 05:57 PM

Most screenplays are written to about 53-58 lines per page (not including page numbers). https://screenwriting.io/what-is-standard-screenplay-format/ .

I am counting the lines coming out of Marked, and it looks more like 48 lines. Because the first heuristic is to count pages as minutes, this is more of a problem than usual.

Can this be changed?

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 16 Aug, 2024 08:08 PM

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    Marked uses Fountain’s own library and its output should match anything that other fountain apps are creating. It’s not something I’m interested in reimplementing as a standalone processor.

    Thanks,
    Brett
    On Aug 16, 2024 at 1:00 PM -0500, ivo.welch <[email blocked]>, wrote:

  2. 2 Posted by ivo.welch on 16 Aug, 2024 08:22 PM

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    upstream then... will try to ask there. is the code from fountain.io ?

  3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Brett on 16 Aug, 2024 09:07 PM

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    Correct. They haven't updated it in years, but it's working as expected.

    On 16 Aug 2024, at 15:22, ivo.welch wrote:

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