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Reinventing the screenwriting software.
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Pasting from screenplay to audioplay creates odd formatting #68

Open Koopa1018 opened 2 years ago

Koopa1018 commented 2 years ago

The screenplay I'm trying to copy (created in Starc) has numerous actions, characters, lines of dialogue, and scene changes, and has beats laid out in the Treatment editor (many of which have no content in the Screenplay--just a summary in the Treatment).

When I copy-paste this entire document into a newly created audioplay, I get all text from the screenplay as I would expect (including beat summaries from the treatment editor--a little odd, but I'll allow it).

But I get it strangely formatted.

Some chunks of the text become all Dialogue elements with a single Character line as a header. These both display across the full page width like an Unformatted Text element, but with an extra line between them. Other chunks begin with a Scene Heading and the other lines are "chameleons"--they show the same format as the last selected line (e.g. when I select a Scene Heading, chameleon text shows as Scene Heading; select a Character, chameleon text shows as Character; etc.). The Headings display correctly; the Chameleon text displays as Unformatted Text with slightly less spacing.

The chunks seems to alternate roughly following the layout of scenes, but only roughly--many chunks begin on a true scene heading, but several times, the final dialogue from the previous scene becomes the Scene Heading, and at least once, it begins a Character/Dialogue chunk on a character name instead.

I'm guessing inter-format copying isn't complete yet?

dimkanovikov commented 2 years ago

Yeah, inter-format copying absolutely not implemented :)

But thank you for highlighted it, we'll improve it for sure.