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A Fountain script usually starts with some metadata stating the basic info about the script. These are colon-separated key-value pairs at the start of a file, e.g. 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
.