tag:support.markedapp.com,2011-09-11:/discussions/questions/3531-fountain-pdf-title-pageMarked: Discussion 2018-05-02T21:06:02Ztag:support.markedapp.com,2011-09-11:Comment/290757922013-09-28T16:35:31Z2014-05-31T17:53:56Zfountain pdf title page<div><p>Wow! This is great to see Marked supporting fountain. I'm trying
out Marked 2</p>
<p>How do I access the css for the title page that gets made?</p>
<p>I have title, author, contact but they are all shmushed together
at the top.</p>
<p>I don't see custom.css in /Library/Application Support/Marked
which in your help docs says should be there.</p>
<p>Where are the css files stored?</p>
<p>THANKS</p>
<p>Rick</p></div>rpdoolingtag:support.markedapp.com,2011-09-11:Comment/290757922013-09-28T16:45:27Z2013-09-28T16:45:27Zfountain pdf title page<div><p>Fountain CSS can't be customized, it's very precise to allow me
to get Slugline-style printing. I may change that in the
future.</p>
<p>Custom CSS should be in your User Library (~/Library/Application
Support/Marked/), and if it's not you can create that. CSS files
can be added from anywhere, though.</p>
<p>There's also the box in the behavior section where you can add
general rules that would override some Fountain styles, and you can
use the web inspector (right click, inspect element) to find the
necessary selectors.</p>
<p>If you could post an example document for testing, I can try to
fix anything that's wrong with the output.</p>
<p>-Brett</p></div>Bretttag:support.markedapp.com,2011-09-11:Comment/290757922013-09-28T17:25:51Z2014-05-31T17:53:56Zfountain pdf title page<div><p>Brett,</p>
<p>According to THE HOLLYWOOD STANDARD a title page should have the
title<br>
centered 4 inches below the top of the page, then four lines below
that the<br>
credit "written by" let's say, then 2 lines below that the
author.</p>
<p>In the lower left hand corner, contact information.</p>
<p>If I run Marked 2 on metadata that looks like this</p>
<p>/* Author: Wally Writer<br>
Title: My Screenplay<br>
Contact: Andy Agent, CAA<br>
*/</p>
<p>I get title, credit, and author all way up at the top.</p>
<p>The Contact info indeed appears to the left (uncentered, as it
should) but<br>
it too is WAY UP like two lines below the author, when it should be
down<br>
in the lower left hand corner.</p>
<p>Also, not to nitpick, but screenplays typically don't have the
first page<br>
(page 1) numbered.</p>
<p>THANKS FOR SUPPORTING FOUNTAIN!</p>
<p>Rick</p></div>rpdoolingtag:support.markedapp.com,2011-09-11:Comment/290757922013-09-28T18:30:10Z2013-09-28T18:30:10Zfountain pdf title page<div><p>Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>-Brett</p></div>Bretttag:support.markedapp.com,2011-09-11:Comment/290757922013-09-28T19:59:37Z2014-05-31T17:53:56Zfountain pdf title page<div><p>No. Thank YOU.</p>
<p>I left the credit out of the original sample metadata block.
This would be<br>
the most common metadata, but then there are wrinkles like having
more than<br>
one author etc. Some include Draft information in the lower
right.</p>
<p>/* Author: Wally Writer<br>
Credit: written by<br>
Title: My Screenplay<br>
Contact: Andy Agent, CAA<br>
*/</p></div>rpdoolingtag:support.markedapp.com,2011-09-11:Comment/290757922018-04-10T04:06:48Z2018-04-10T04:06:50Zfountain pdf title page<div><p>I just set up Marked 2, and imported a fountain file. The mis-formatted title page was my first view of a rendered page in the software, and googling for that issue brought me here.</p>
<p>I know this might not seem like the biggest issue, but I'm 15 minutes in and this 4+-year-old issue is what has convinced me that this software is not polished enough for me to use for screenplays. I appreciate the effort that has gone into this project, but Rick was right--the title page contents should not be squished at the top of a page.</p></div>Zach Taylortag:support.markedapp.com,2011-09-11:Comment/290757922018-05-02T21:06:02Z2018-05-02T21:06:02Zfountain pdf title page<div><p>Sorry for the delayed reply on this, life got in the way of keeping up<br>
on my support queues.</p>
<p>Fountain support is not Marked's highest priority, but it's something I<br>
would really love to have functioning fully. However, the fountain team<br>
hasn't updated their publicly available library in some years now, and<br>
it never fully supported title page rendering. I've been modifying it<br>
myself to keep up with other changes in the spec, but haven't had a<br>
chance to dig into title page rendering yet.</p>
<p>At this point, Marked is trying to be a live preview of screenplays<br>
using Fountain, but not a fully-compatible output tool. I'd like to get<br>
it there, but like I said, Fountain is a secondary capability of Marked<br>
right now.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br>
Brett</p></div>Brett