A Fountain script usually starts with some metadata stating the basic information about the script. These are colon-separated key-value pairs at the start of a file:
key: value
Other Fountain-compatible programs may refer to this as “title page” info, but metadata can store information not related to or present on the title page.
Calling auto-insert will guide you through adding the most common
Fountain metadata, prompting with likely defaults:
title is pretty obvious, and will default to base-name of the
current buffer.
credit is not actually your name, but the type of credit given to
the author, e.g. written by or screenplay by.
author is you or your writing team, and defaults to the value of
variable user-full-name.
format will override the value of
fountain-default-script-format for the current script. Accepted
values are: screenplay, teleplay, stageplay.
date defaults to the current date in your locale’s “preferred”
format.
source, for if you’re writing an adaptation.
contact is useful if the writer wants readers to ever get in
touch to make the film/play!
All metadata keys can take either a single line of input following the colon, or a newline followed multiple lines indented with whitespace:
author: Mary Maryland and Alan Smithee
Metadata keys are case-insensitive, e.g. ‘Title’ is the same as ‘title’.