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Questions regarding writing scripts and screenplays, for movies, TV, videogames and similar media.

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Why is the standard screenplay format just plain ASCII? Why don't use LaTeX or Word?

There are a number of reasons why plain text is still fairly common in a number of industries. Portability Standard ASCII text files can be opened and written to by a staggering number of compute …
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