Scene Headings ¶

Scene headings begin with a prefix, specified in fountain-scene-heading-prefix-list, which defaults to:

INT, EXT, EST, INT./EXT., INT/EXT, I/E

Each prefix may be followed by a dot and/or a space, so the following are equivalent:

INT HOUSE - DAY

INT. HOUSE - DAY

User Option: fountain-scene-heading-prefix-list ¶

This options allows setting your own scene heading prefixes. These entries are case-insensitive.

User Option: fountain-scene-heading-suffix-list ¶

This options allows setting your own scene heading suffixes (or time-of-day). These are also suggested as completion candidates. These entries are case-insensitive.

User Option: fountain-scene-heading-suffix-separator ¶

This option allows setting the separator (a regular expression) between the scene location and time of day. The default ‘ --? ’ allows either one or two dashes. See (emacs)Regexps.

User Option: fountain-auto-upcase-scene-headings ¶

Enabling this option will automatically upcase text after a scene heading prefix as you type.

User Option: fountain-double-space-scene-headings ¶

Enabling this option will display two blank lines above scene headings, regardless of what’s in the file. n.b. This option does not affect calculation of pagination, which is set with fountain-export-scene-heading-format. See Exporting.

See Scene Heading Completion.