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How does it work?

Fountain is the name for the rules used to write a screenplay in plain text.

By using a few main syntax rules, Highland Pro transforms your plain text into a fully formatted screenplay.

While you can get all the basics of writing with Fountain in our Quick Start Guide, here we offer some additional explanations and edge cases for how to use Fountain to its fullest.

Scene Headings Action Character Transitions
Dialogue Parentheticals Dual Dialogue Lyrics
Centered Text Emphasis Page Breaks Punctuation
Line Breaks Indenting Sections and Synopses Notes
Boneyard Error Handling

Scene Headings

A Scene Heading is any line that has a blank line following it, and either begins with INT or EXT or similar (full list below).

A Scene Heading always has at least one blank line preceding it.

You can force a Scene Heading by starting the line with a single period.

INT. BLOOM HOUSE KITCHEN - DAY

EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - LATER

EXT. OLYMPIA CIRCUS - NIGHT

.SNIPER RIFLE - POV

Although uppercase is recommended for Scene Headings to make your script easier to read as you edit it, it’s not required. Highland will format ext. brick’s pool - day the same way as if you typed EXT. BRICK’S POOL - DAY

Scene Numbering

You can append Scene Numbers to any Scene Heading. Any alphanumerics (plus dashes and periods) wrapped in # will work.

INT. HOUSE - DAY #1#

INT. HOUSE - DAY #1A#

INT. HOUSE - DAY #1a#

INT. HOUSE - DAY #A1#

INT. HOUSE - DAY #I-1-A#

INT. HOUSE - DAY #1.#

INT. HOUSE - DAY - FLASHBACK (1944) #110A#

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