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rnkn / fountain-mode

Emacs major mode for screenwriting in Fountain plain-text markup
https://fountain-mode.org
GNU General Public License v3.0
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What is the best/recommended way to export to PDF? #101

Closed alienbogart closed 5 years ago

alienbogart commented 5 years ago

I understand this package do not export directly to PDF, so how should I proceed to accomplish this while preserving formatting at the same time?

rnkn commented 5 years ago

You can export Fountain -> LaTeX -> PDF, but a better way to convert Fountain -> PDF is to install afterwriting package via npm. Then use fountain-export-shell-command (which is setup to use afterwriting by default).

alienbogart commented 5 years ago

Okay then, I'll try this package. I was trying to avoid installing npm on my system, it wasn't very easy last time. Thanks ;)

alienbogart commented 5 years ago

Afterwriting works great! Since this is a package targeting non-programmers, may I suggest adding some brief, laymen friendly instructions on how to install and use this package?

rnkn commented 5 years ago

The only thing is I actually don't know how to install node/npm on systems other than macOS. But Fountain Mode is actually now part of GNU ELPA and maintained by Free Software Foundation so anyone may propose a change via the mailing lists here: https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs (This repo should probably be converted to a mirror.)

alienbogart commented 5 years ago

I understand. I started drafting something in the direction I proposed. Should I make a pull request, or send it to the mailing list? I never used those, to be honest.

rnkn commented 5 years ago

Everything really should go to the GNU ELPA repo. PR's here will not be reflected within Emacs.