Fountain Folding *CORRECTION*

Edit

First of all thank you for this amazing app! It is just wonderful and I could go on using it as is but wanted to offer a correction to the FOUNTAIN FOLDING.

CURRENTLY:

In Fountain mode on Editorial all elements are FOLDED into the SCENE HEADING (i.e. EXT. FOREST -DAY)

↧ EXT. FOREST - DAY (Everything is FOLDED into the SCENE HEADING) 
# Act II 
= synopsis 
## Sequence 
= synopsis 
### Scene 
= synopsis

This is incorrect.

CORRECTION:

FOLDING (NESTING) for Fountain should follow the following hierarchy. "Scenes" should be folded into "Sequences" which should be folded into "Acts"
(http://fountain.io/syntax#section-sections)

↧# Act

↧## Sequence

↧### Scene

Every ACT, SEQUENCE and SCENE can also include a SYNOPSIS denoted by an = (equal sign). Even when the ACT, SEQUENCE and SCENE headings are folded I would still show the ACT SYNOPSIS , SEQUENCE SYNOPSIS and SCENE SYNOPSIS. So ideally I would do the FOLDING...

↧ # Act I 
= synopsis (show Act synopsis when Act is folded) 
↧ ## Sequence 
= synopsis (show Sequence synopsis when Sequence is folded) 
↧ ### Scene 
= synopsis (show Scene synopsis when Scene is folded) 
↧ EXT. FOREST - DAY (fold scene's contents into its heading) 
↧ # Act II 
= synopsis 
↧ ## Sequence 
= synopsis 
↧ ### Scene 
= synopsis 
↧ EXT. FOREST - DAY 
↧ # Act III 
= synopsis 
↧ ## Sequence 
= synopsis 
↧ ### Scene 
= synopsis 
↧ EXT. FOREST - DAY

When completely FOLDED it would look like this...

↦ # Act I 
= synopsis 
↦ # Act II 
= synopsis 
↦ # Act III 
= synopsis

Thank you again for this wonderful app!!!

LittleHouse75

Whoah -- fountain mode has folding on editorial?

I've got Fountain Syntax turned on... how do I enable folding? (Sorry, newbie here...)

Edit

With fountain mode enabled an arrow pointing right > will appear next to scene headings that begin with INT. or EXT.

Click the arrow and all of the scene's contents will be folded into the INT. or EXT. scene heading.

Hope that's helpful.

danielsaurus

I agree — this (hopefully minor?) change in how Fountain folds sections would be a very appreciated improvement!

I absolutely love writing in Fountain with Editorial on my iPhone — especially when I'm out and about for a walk outside, which is when I find I’m most productive. Nothing even comes close to rivaling how great of an app Editorial is. I similarly have to agree, though, that the current folding hierarchy in the app doesn’t really seem to reflect the way I think sections were intended in the Fountain syntax — or at the very least, how I like to use them, which is especially relevant in the early phases of writing (and coincidentally also when I’m most likely to be using Editorial, before eventually reverting to Highland on my Mac for finishing up a draft). I tend to start out my writing by first outlining and brainstorming the larger story sequences and story beats — and it’s only when I have that figured out that I eventually move my way on to working on individual scenes. The way that Edit has laid out for how Fountain folding should work would thus be absolutely perfect for me, since it'd allow me to quickly fold sections of story up to see the Big Picture, then when I’m ready drill down to focus on the larger sequences and, eventually, individual scenes.

For the time being, I’ve taken to simply creating separate Fountain docs for my individual story sequences — not the best solution, though for now it gives me a way to focus on the individual sequences I’m currently working on — but if this alternate way of section folding in Fountain could be implemented, I’d be in heaven.

Thanks for such a wonderful app. I appreciate all your hard work on it!

tritip

The brilliance of this software is that these ideas can be easily added by users. The workflow hooks exist, the regular expressions from ScreenPlain are available on github