So I'm finally deciding that today is the day that I start writing that #screenplay I was always dreaming of. I find a nice markup format for #screenwriting called Fountain. Great! It looks easy to write and there are #Emacs modes for it!
So I goes over to see what can handle Fountain, and all I find is a bunch of apps that proudly proclaim that they work on both operating systems: macOS and iOS:
So, wtf, do I need to buy stuff from Apple to fulfill my writer's dream?
@JordiGH also looks like it mentions things for non-Apple platforms (things like emacs major modes or Atom plugins, or Windows software - I'm not sure how you're getting mac only out of that page?)
@calvin I thought the Emacs modes are only for editing the text, not for producing the pdf or fdx output. But it looks like it can export after all! Sorry!
Still, weird how Apple-centric the whole thing looks.
@JordiGH i mean, the intersection of people interested in unix* tools and creative arts are very often apple users (for Reasons™)
*emacs isn't remotely unixy, it's a sad genera clone
@calvin I wish the FHS were POSIX so I could argue that macOS isn't Unix, because no FHS makes it feel so alien to me.
@JordiGH Mac OS follows the FHS, but only for the POSIX world; the parallel Next/Mac successor ecosystem has its own way of doing things (BeOS/Haiku do a similar thing)
@JordiGH i guess you could do it in LaTeX
...or roff