On 16.07.04, Elver Loho wrote:
> Hi.
>
> There are two different kinds of screenplays in this world. One is the...
> screenplay. And the other is the shooting script. The former is what a
> screenwriter writes, sells and what the actors get. The latter is based on
> the former and includes technical information such as camera angles, scene
> numbers, notes about sound, lighting, the scene, etc.
>
> I would like to write both at the same time, but then later export versions
> with and without the extra information. Is there a way to do it?
If I understand you right, this could be done with a the "ifthenelse"
package.
My *untested* concept includes:
In the "screenplay-director.layout" file define a new layout
"Direction", with the latex type
LatexType Command
LatexName \ifthenelse{\boolean{description}}{}
and
Preamble
\usepackage{ifthen} % Bedingte Ausgabe
\newboolean{description} % Description style? TRUE|FALSE
\setboolean{description}{false} % default is director style
EndPreamble
Then, a simple ERT, saying
\setboolean{description}{true}
would skip paragraphs formatted as Direction. Instead of the ERT, you
could even define this as a Layout of its own with
Layout SkipDirections
LatexType Command
LatexName \setboolean{description}
This will need a bit of fiddeling, but I think it can be done...
> to have two PDF export functions -- one that would export a version
> where the "Director" lines are ignored and one where the "Director"
> lines are still there.
Of course, you will not get two export alternatives in the menu, but
have to write "false" or "true" in the SkipDirections paragraph.
> The only problem that I can think of is that the "Description" style makes
> sure that there is no page break between it and the former INT/EXT line. I
> don't know how it does this, but I'd like if there was a way to make sure
> that when a non-technical version is exported and the "Director" lines
> between INT/EXT and the "Description" lines are ignored, that the
> "Description" lines would still hug the INT/EXT line and make sure that there
> is no page break between those.
I did not get this correctly. Maybe this can be done by nesting the
Director layout. Does the current screenplay layout take care of it (no
pagebreak between INT/EXT and content of scene)?
Günter
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