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+Episode: 1556
+Title: HPR1556: Screenplay Writing On Linux and Chromebooks
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1556/hpr1556.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 05:04:39
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+Hi, my name is Gordon Syncler, I am known on IRC the odd time I am there as Thistleweb
+I am also on Twitter as Thistleweb. This HPR episode should be quick, quick one. It's
+going to be on something called screenplay writing. Now for people who know me, I've done
+Nano-RIMO the last couple of years, Nano-RIMO is just a regular fiction, it's not screenplays,
+but I have decided to try and expand my writing skillset out to screenplays because a screenplay
+is essentially a kind of a sort of shorthand version of telling a story, it's a very visual
+way of telling a story. There's no superfluous language to describe things, it's very, very
+basic, the dialogue is very unadorned, there's no emotion on that, it's traditionally left
+to the directors and the actors and the film crew and whatever, so that's where I've
+started from, is a way to do that, a way to do a first draft in a screenplay format and
+then essentially novelise it to do the proper first draft of a regular story and take
+from there. Now what I've been looking at is the format that screenplays are in is very,
+very precise, the styles, the formats, the spacing, the layout, the white space, everything
+is very, very exact, there's no room for just inventing your own, if you're submitting
+a screenplay to a producer or a studio or something, they expect that exact same format,
+if you don't have it in that, they won't even touch it, they won't even look at it, so you've
+got to basically conform to that format. Unfortunately, that format is a real pain in an editor
+that's multi-purpose, like a labour office or a ward or Google Docs or something, because
+of the space and all that, it's just a real pain to try and do that, so if you're doing
+a screenplay, it really pays to have an application that's specifically designed for that one purpose
+and that one purpose alone, that way it takes care of all of the format and for you. Now, I have been
+looking at that, obviously the Mac is well served because a lot of the music, sorry, the movie
+and the TV industry, they use Macs to write on and produce on, so the Mac is very well
+served, I don't know solutions there, but I'm guessing it must be, it has to be. I was interested
+on the Linux side. Now, I found two applications actually, one is called Trailbay, and now Trailbay
+is a future GP, it's free software anyway, it's Trailbay.org, and I'll put the notes into the
+links with both of these in the show notes. It's Trailbay. Now, Trailbay is a little, I think it's
+Python, actually, a little Python app, that it's cross platform, there's Windows, there's Mac,
+there's Linux, there's an all-debian binary that I used on CrunchBank, and it worked great, it's
+absolutely, it's really, really good. It takes care of all the format and for you. You tab your
+way through, and it knows, for example, that the stub line at the top should be in all caps,
+so you just type, and it's automatically in caps. You hit Enter, and you're down to the description,
+it knows that it needs to be left aligned, just regular monotype, it does that, and you're already
+in monotype, you enter again, and that's your first characters dialogue, and it's in caps,
+you don't have to remember in caps, it's already in caps, and it's center aligned for you,
+again, you type your characters name, enter, and it knows the next thing, it's expecting this
+dialogue, it's all there for you, it is tab your way through, and it's just so easy,
+it has other things like it gives you stats of how many scenes there are, how many
+scenes per character, how many words, how many pages, how many characters, you can export a PDF,
+you can, it's got a character database, it's got auto completion for characters as well,
+so that if you enter a character once, the next time you go to type that character,
+that character on again, it automatically picks that up, that's why a little tip of picked up
+from watching documentaries on movie production, whatever, that's the main reason why you don't
+often get characters that start with the same letter and the same scene, is because it makes
+it so much easier for the script writers to switch characters, but this is all the enter
+character once and already in there, and auto completes for you, you've got character lookups
+for how to spell different characters, and that's like an American name for a female, or it's a
+Japanese male name, or whatever it is, so you've got all the character lookups, you've got stats,
+export, it's absolutely incredible, it looks like the sort of thing that you could do a complete
+script on, and then print it off as a PDF, and it fills in all of the blanks, it fills in your,
+it knows the page, the pages at the start that are meant to be summaries, and all that, it does
+all of that for you, it is fantastic, it's free of charge, it's also GPL, so that's, it's cross
+platforms, I said, so that's Trilby, now one of the things that I have constantly been drawn to is
+I like the idea of a Chromebook as a dedicated writing device and nothing else, now I decided I
+couldn't get along with Google Docs, a preferred focus writer normally, so I thought I wonder if
+apparently Google Docs works better on a Chromebook, it's more integrated than it would be in
+a regular laptop, I think that's quite possibly true, so it might be all, but anyway, I thought I
+wonder if there's something that's going to be, that's going to do that for screenplays, because Google
+Docs is going to be hopeless for that, and alone to hold, there it is, there's a Chrome add-on for the
+Chrome web browser, which essentially that's what Chrome is, it's just one web browser, I don't quite
+see the point of the add-on app, it's, excuse me, it's essentially just a link to a hosted site,
+it's called Rosgript, now all it does is you basically log in, you can create an account,
+it's rosgript.com, and again I'll put the link in the show notes, you can either create an account
+there, I believe, or you can log in with Google or Yahoo account, I went in with my Google account,
+and inside this it's basically like a webmail thing, or it's like a Google Docs sort of a thing,
+with all of the same, all the basics that you would need to do a script, it's got the same thing
+with encoding notes, it keeps starts on your different scenes, you can presume rearrange it
+the order, you can put notes in, you can export it, again it's the same thing when you
+like put your stubborn interior kitchen morning whatever enter, and it expects a description,
+and it goes through all that same automatic format and for you, it's hosted online on their own site,
+which I don't know about any privacy concerns, I'm not actually looked into that, but it is actually
+hosted on their site, there's been a couple of reviews in the Chrome app store saying that
+they had created data there, and then like four or five days later they went and to log in,
+it wasn't there, I don't know, I've only played about it today and it seems fine to me,
+the licensing for that is AGPL, apparently according to the developer, the source codes
+about our mess, but it works, what's going to be AGPL from now on, should I say, and apparently
+Stalman's convinced him, Stalman gets a mention on the source code part of the page,
+so presumably that means you'll be able to at some point, maybe even now you're not checked,
+go download it and install it on your own cloud somewhere, your own server somewhere,
+and that takes care of the privacy concerns, and it'll bits open source as well, so
+both of these applications seem to be very, very good at what they do, this is the kind of
+unix philosophy of do one thing and do it really well, so obviously if you're looking for something
+that can do other things and screenplays, this isn't it, this is only those screenplays, it's all it
+does, and both cases, that's all it does, but for screenplays, for what it does, both of them
+look absolutely incredible, in the short time I've been playing with them, as I say I'm
+I've still, I've just started to add the screenplay thing or to start adding the screenplay thing
+to my writing skills, so I've just started exploring these two and at least with Roskrips,
+Roskrips.com, I can do screenplays from a Chromebook which is not the kind of news I wanted because
+I thought I'd rolled out a Chromebook and it means it's back on off, back on the cards again,
+and it's like, it's almost like, like the ring, what almost likes me going the ring,
+but anyway that's my problem, so that's it for this short HDR, it's been a while,
+hopefully it won't be as long until the next one, thanks for listening, and again,
+contact me, you can do email that's Gordon at thisalib.co.uk,
+I'm on Twitter most of the time, and at thisalib, I want an IRC, I'm Friday nights usually,
+as thisalib, and thanks for listening, and goodbye!
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