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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/screenplay/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/screenplay/README index e165ea11401..7d1f7640260 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/screenplay/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/screenplay/README @@ -1,17 +1,32 @@ -This is a LaTeX .cls file to provide formatting as recommended by the +LaTeX2e .cls file to provide formatting as recommended by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. -Potential users need to read the information from the Academy, and -a few example scripts, and draw their own conclusions. The current -version of `screenplay.cls' (v 1.417 at time of writing) seems to me to be -`good enough' to produce a fair copy for the Nicholl Fellowships -Competition - if you do your part - which was the point of it (weeks ago -when I started!). Whether ScriptTeX would, in fact, be a better solution -if I managed to get my head around it is another question. It looks to -me, however, that installing ScriptTeX and modifying it will be more work -than using `screenplay.cls.' As a more generalised solution ScriptTeX -may be better though (but then again, is that the UNIX way?). +Potential users need to read the information from the Academy, +and a few example scripts, and draw their own conclusions. +The current version of `screenplay.cls' (v 1.440 at time of +writing) seems to me to be `good enough' to produce a fair +copy for the Nicholl Fellowships Competition - if you do your +part - which was the point of it (weeks ago when I started!). -Academy: http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/format.html +Really we're attempting to emulate a typewriter with this - +which TeX is not meant for! So I doubt it can ever be perfect. -ScriptTeX: http://www.aidtopia.com/software/scripttex/index.html +Read all the comments in the .cls file, they may help you out. + +Whether ScriptTeX would, in fact, be a better solution if I +managed to get my head around it is another question. It looks +to me, however, that installing ScriptTeX and modifying it +will be more of a pain than using `screenplay.cls.' As a more +generalised solution ScriptTeX may be better though (but then +again, is that the UNIX way?). + +Academy: + http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/format.html + +ScriptTeX: + http://www.aidtopia.com/software/scripttex/index.html + +-- +John Pate <johnny@dvc.org.uk> +http://dvc.org.uk/ +Tue Sep 19 14:05:33 BST 2006 |