Surprisingly, writing in Fountain format gets easy pretty quickly, especially with help from Slugline with its intuition, but I think this is also a result of my familiarity with the screenwriting format itself. I am still getting the hang of Fountain format. What I Am Still Learning to Do in Slugline Omitted text is highlighted in blue on the screen, so it stands out as you write, but doesn't appear in the printed document when you print from Slugline. The ability to omit text rather than delete it is perfect for cutting parts of your script that you think you may need to reuse in later drafts or simply reference as you continue to rewrite. Slugline lets you omit text as you rewrite. Outline elements don't appear in the printed version of a screenplay, so you don't need to delete them from your Fountain file in Slugline. If you want to add a scene in the middle of your script, you can use outline notation to insert a reminder with a synopsis for what that scene needs to be when you get around to writing it. For instance, if you use note cards to create scenes with brief synopses, you can add those to Slugline using the outline notation so you can see them embedded in your script as you write. The outlining features are quite simple to allow writers to use them in a way that makes the most sense for their writing styles. If you would like to see the outline next to your document, you can choose the Show Outline feature from the Outline menu, and Slugline displays your outline with the ability to customize which elements you want to appear (Scene Headings, Sections, Synopses, Notes). Using pound (#) and equal (=) symbols, you can create an outline with various levels in your main document in Slugline. Slugline lets you outline throughout the main document using Fountain conventions, but won't print outline elements in the final document. and every character name that starts with E. plus every other Scene Heading that begins with EXT. For example, if you type E for the beginning of EXT., Slugline pulls up an autocomplete menu with EXT. Also, as you start to type, the autocomplete feature kicks in (as the name "autocomplete" would suggest). Although a bit odd at first, after a little time with the app, I found this pop-up menu to be quite helpful. Because Slugline uses Fountain, which relies on text to determine script elements and formatting, Slugline has repurposed the Tab key to be a pop-up menu of Character names, Scene Headings and Transitions. Slugline has a versatile autocomplete pop-up menu. Slugline learns from your patterns and anticipates what element you are about to write. When you are striving to complete that first draft, removing all distractions so you can disappear into that world is key. No icons luring you into the Internet, no Twitter feeds updating you constantly on life's minutia, nothing but your screenplay. Your screenplay looks beautiful on the screen and that’s the only thing you see on your screen. Slugline has a clean interface with no distractions, optimized for Retina display.
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