Add Notes.

[smvg]

First of all, I've just discovered your program, really like it. I wanted to give a suggestion though. When I write I like to add a lot of notes to my scenes (how it's shot since fountain does not include syntax for shots, the music I use, ...). Any plans on adding note support in the future?

[eprovst]

Do you mean an option to show notes in output? This is something I'd love to add however I'm not sure how this should look in output (especially inline notes). Any suggestions? 🙂

[smvg]

Do you mean an option to show notes in output? This is something I'd love to add however I'm not sure how this should look in output (especially inline notes). Any suggestions?

Yes. I personally always preferred how Trelby handled notes compared to other screenwriting editors. This is how it looks (making it a little smaller would help I think).

[atoav]

I'd set its color to something nonblack (how about 70% grey or so) and add a visual clue, make it smaller and align it to the right or so.

Also: IMO this should render[[ these coments ]] but not /* these comments */. Then we wouldn't even need to add a flag for it, but could make it default behaviour.

[eprovst]

I like the idea of putting the text in grey. I'm currently thinking of using the Fountain syntax and this colour as hints of it being notes. Synopses and other sectioning capabilities in Fountain can then be added in a similar fashion.

Other visual distinctions would be harder to add as Wrap uses typewriter metrics internally (to get the exact formatting screenplays require).

However, I'm not keen on making notes default as for most authors these are for personal use.

Boneyard sections (/* */) will probably never be part of output anyway (they are currently simply skipped during parsing) so I'm glad no-one is looking for that ;).

I know of shot descriptions being a thing, so I would need to take a look at how that is usually done in industry. If it's common enough and isn't possible to recreate in normal Fountain, I might try to add it as part of the Wrap format.

Sorry for being slow on this issue, the past year has been rather busy and I've still got a good month or so worth of other work ahead of me, so I have focussed on fixing bugs instead of adding new functionality ;)

[rubenxyz]

+1

Adding notes to output would be greatly appreciated. I'm supposed to share a half baked script with a colleague and wanted to share my notes. They contains TODOs and BUGs.

Thank you for a great program.