Pago

Pago is a powerful terminal-based screenwriting script. It allows the open source text editor Vim to be used as a fully-functional piece of screenwriting software such as Final Draft or Celtx.

This plugin automatically formats screenplay elements to the following specifications:

This plugin was inspired by the screenplay.vim plugin developed by Alex Lance, which supported Action lines, Character names, and Dialogue.

This Vim plugin supports all major formatting elements of a screenplay, based on both logical and commonly accepted conventions of the screenplay form. It automatically enforces all boundaries within each screenplay element, ensuring proper formatting to the exact specifications of a screenplay.

It also allows access to all six available screenplay elements without any complex keyboard shortcuts or commands, using only the keys <Backspace>, <Tab>, <Enter>, <Up>, <Down>, <Left>, <Right>, and allows easy cycling through blank screenplay elements using both the <Tab> and <Backspace> keys. 

Features include:

• Simple offline PDF generation
• Pressing TAB cycles through empty screenplay elements in the order: Action, Dialogue, Parenthetical, Character, Transition, and Action
• Pressing <Tab> from a blank TRANSITION element will cycle back to the beginning of the line, triggering a blank Action element
• Parentheses are automatically inserted when calling a blank Parenthetical element. Pressing <Tab> from within blank parentheses will automatically delete the parentheses and jump to a blank Character element
• Parentheses are automatically inserted when calling a blank Parenthetical element. Pressing <Tab> from within blank parentheses will automatically delete the parentheses and jump to a blank Character element
• A colon (":") is automatically inserted at the end of the line when an Transition element is called.  The cursor remains at the spot of the colon when text is either entered or deleted
• Text typed within a Transition element is automatically Right-Justified
• Pressing <Enter> from a Transition element jumps two lines down the page and prompts a blank Scene Heading element
• Pressing <Backspace> on an empty line cycles through empty screenplay elements in the reverse order: Transition --> Character --> Parenthetical --> Dialogue --> Action --> End of Previous Element
• Pressing <Backspace> from a blank line jumps to the end of the previous element or, if the above two lines are blank, will create a blank Action element two lines above the previous cursorline
• Pressing <Backspace> on a line with text will delete the character to the left of the cursor
• All text typed with a Scene Heading, Character, or Transition element will be automatically Capitalized
• To create a Scene Heading element, press enter while in a blank Action element. The Cursorline will be Highlighted and all text typed within the element will be Capitalized
• While in a blank Scene Heading element: Press the <Space> bar to cycle through the common prefixes INT., EXT., and INT./EXT
• Press <Enter> to jump down two lines to a new, blank Action element
• Active screenplay element is displayed in Caps in the status bar
• Page number is displayed in the status bar. This estimates the number of pages within your screeplay using a 56-line-per-page standard
• Pressing <Up> in either Insert or Normal modes jumps to the beginning of the line above the cursorline
• Pressing <Down> in either Insert or Normal modes jumps to the end of the line above the cursorline
• Holding <Left> in either INSERT or Normal modes scrolls through to the beginning of the current element, then jumps to the end of the previous element
• Holding <Right> in either Insert or Normal modes scrolls through to the end of the current element, then jumps to the beginning of the next element
• Typing text within a screenplay element such as Dialogue or Action will automatically reformat the paragraph if text exceeds the preset end of the line. This improves upon use of the :tw (text width) and :wrap commands by formatting text that is typed within a paragraph, rather than simply at the end of it

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Last Updated Sunday, February 05 2012 @ 03:22 AM EST