As a writer and a long time user of Word, might I suggest you set up a special Word (or wordprocessor-of-your-choice) template for scripts that also incoporates a toolbar with a series of personalised macro buttons?
I have a fanfiction template that automatically incorporates all the usual header info (all I have to insert are the title, character list, rating and Author Notes) and also includes a toolbar with macro buttons to insert the opening and closing tags for italics, bolding, etc. that I regularly use, and to insert regularly used names (eg. Martha Jones, The Doctor, Jack Harkness, etc.)
It can take a little while to set up, but once you have it set up, it would probably speed up the coding process by a large percentage...
Well, I didn't actually know such a thing could be done with word! My concern is the final file size - there's a 200KB limit on my hosting site, and webpages generated by word do tend to be quite large. Would that be the case, do you know?
Well I've got the script for "Smith and Jones" that RTD made available free online and I converted it to Word format (from a PDF) and it's 145KB. The TW "Reset" transcript that beccaelizabeth provided and I saved as a Word file is 75KB...
So I think you'd probably be OK - I guess it just depends how much detail you put in to them?
The thing is, it's not the size of the word file that might be a problem - a webpage, made in word but saved in HTML format, tends to be a lot larger than it needs to be. I may have to resort to teaching myself CSS. Sigh!
Oh - I wouldn't know, I don't do that kind of thing (converting Word files to HTML I mean). When I had a website I regularly updated, I coded the HTML myself (it's easy enough to learn, and much easier than learning CSS !)
CSS is easy. I could set you up with a file to code these the way you want, and all you would have to do is use some good (X)HTML practices to insert the CSS. It's really quite easy to pick up.
I have a fanfiction template that automatically incorporates all the usual header info (all I have to insert are the title, character list, rating and Author Notes) and also includes a toolbar with macro buttons to insert the opening and closing tags for italics, bolding, etc. that I regularly use, and to insert regularly used names (eg. Martha Jones, The Doctor, Jack Harkness, etc.)
It can take a little while to set up, but once you have it set up, it would probably speed up the coding process by a large percentage...
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So I think you'd probably be OK - I guess it just depends how much detail you put in to them?
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