eprovst
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5 years ago This is intentional, so let me explain why:
For the screenplay format I did not look at other software as much, I did however look at style guides from prominent companies and organisations. All I have found either mandate two blank lines before a scene heading or at least advice it.
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The BBC puts it this way:
Begin a new scene with the heading triple-spaced from the preceding scene.
(Note that triple-spaced here means three newlines, which results in two blank lines.)
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In the Academy's example script it isn't explicitly mentioned, but they do use double spacing.
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Also, for what it's worth, Final Draft uses double spacing.
Double spacing is used to improve readability - it's a new setting after all - and as a scene transition takes some time, it also slightly improves the one minute, one page correspondence.
So thanks for analysing the output of Wrap in such great detail, but double spacing is the norm Wrap is following. :slightly_smiling_face:
Send the same screenplay through Wrap vs. 'afterwriting CLI (or examine the PDF output of any professional screenwriting package). Wrap produces an extra blank line worth of space before all scene slugs. I don't know whether this is the case in HTML also.