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 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.

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.

See Scene Heading Completion.