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What is Fountain?

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Fountain is a simple markup language for writing screenplays in plain text.

With Fountain, you can write a screenplay in any text editor without worrying about spacing and margins and indentation. Once you put it through a conversion utility like Highland, it will come out in proper screenplay format.

So this:

JIRO (O.S.)
Something smells fishy…

Becomes this:

JIRO (O.S.)

Something smells fishy...

Since Fountain is just plain text, it’s future-proof. You’ll never run into problems with obsolete file formats or incompatible software.

More from johnaugust.com

  • Introducing Fountain
  • Say hello to Highland
  • What format should I send my script in?
  • How to convert a PDF to Final Draft

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