kevboh / longform

A plugin for Obsidian that helps you write and edit novels, screenplays, and other long projects.
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Feature Request: Sub-scenes concatenated into multiple files #172

Open matthewturk opened 1 year ago

matthewturk commented 1 year ago

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like to be able to use Longform to construct coursework built on markdown/revealJS, where I often have to shuffle sections between different lectures. I'd like to be able to regard individual "scenes" as lectures, with slides (or sets of slides) as subscenes, and guide the output from the compilation step to generate multiple output files, one for each "scene" to correspond to individual lectures. So I'd then be able to move concepts around via drag-and-drop in the scenes view, and during compilation output the individual lecture files as a coherent whole.

Describe alternatives you've considered

The main alternate, while still using longform, that I've considered has been manually using "lecture break" markers at the start of each individual lecture, with a post-processing script that split the file into multiple markdown files. This doesn't feel quite right to me, though, and it seems a bit fragile.

I've also considered creating a new Longform project for each lecture, but this doesn't allow the seamless movement of subsections between lectures.