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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 1.440 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!).

Really we're attempting to emulate a typewriter with this -
which TeX is not meant for!  So I doubt it can ever be perfect.

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