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Fountain Preview of non-fountain text files.

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rejhless

24 Oct, 2014 06:50 AM

The automatic previewing of .fountain files in appropriate formatting is fantastic, but is it possible to display non-Fountain text files (.md, .txt, etc.) with Fountain formatting?

I know a default Fountain style sheet is applied to .Fountain files, but I would love to open an .md from Writer Pro and choose a Fountain Style from the lower left dropdown menu of the Marked 2 window just like I can choose "Swiss" or "Multi-Column" for the preview style.

Am I missing something in my setup?

Thanks!

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 24 Oct, 2014 02:00 PM

   

   The Fountain CSS doesn't work on anything but Fountain-rendered files.
   You can include fountain Syntax in MD with "scrippets" if you like.
   http://marked2app.com/help/Fountain_for_Screenwriters.html

   -Brett

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2. 2 Posted by rejhless on 30 Oct, 2014 11:12 AM

   

   Thanks Brett!

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3. 3 Posted by N on 24 Sep, 2020 10:32 PM

   

   Hi Brett, is it possible to set 'Process as Fountain' as a default option? (You've explained can't use a Fountain CSS style sheet).

   Can open .fountain files but am doing a lot of writing in Vim and .md which has the auto-refresh benefit rather than have to select it each time a new file's opened and manually refresh for each change.

   Many thanks, N

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Brett on 25 Sep, 2020 02:43 PM

   

   Remind me why you can't use the .fountain extension in vim.

   - Brett

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5. 5 Posted by N on 25 Sep, 2020 06:34 PM

   

   Apologies, I wasn't clear - just meant that you'd already pointed out that Fountain isn't available to non .fountain files and can't be used as a default style option (as Amblin, GitHub, Swiss etc., are).

   .fountain files are working well in Vim.

   Using scrippets auto opens .md files in Marked with Fountain styling but loses page numbers, page breaks and auto refresh.

   .md files are opening and auto refreshing in Vim and Marked which makes a good workflow - but I have to manually change the settings each time a file is opened to use Fountain styling.

   Can the 'Process as Fountain' setting be an optional default setting? So it only has to be set once, not every time a file is opened?

   Many thanks for your help.

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