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MarkDown and Fountain
What are MarkDown and Fountain?
MarkDown and Fountain are standard text enhancement systems utilising tags which can be embedded into normal raw text which:
- Informs processors using stylesheets on how to present text in a particular manner, based upon the provided tags, but
- Provides tags which are for the most part unobtrusive to the reader of the raw text, and can get a sense of meaning from them even without applied styles.
MarkDown is a more general standard intended originally to ease the way in which documents could be formatted in the internet era but without the need to learn the intricacies of HTML and CSS. It is MarkDown, enhanced with custom LostPlot tags which is mainly used within the LostPlot application.
Fountain is a syntax dedicated screenwriting and is used only when LostPlot is in a screenwriting mode. Fountain includes standard scriptwriting instructions such as the type of paragraph being written (an Action, Scene, Dialog etc), information on transitions and such like. As these tags are not useful in the conventional authoring process and may actually be misinterpreted for text intended to be conventional, they only become enabled within a screenwriting project.
More information
While LostPlot includes toolbars to provide access to the standard tags, authors can gain more knowledge about the standards for manual text entry at:
