Did you fixed it?
Hello everyone. I just setup a new vault and that made me realise that the original fountain plugin seems to longer exist on github. Which made me sad as I keep all my .fountain files inside my obsidian vault (which I use for all other related notes and image files). Seeing this thread Iām probably not the only one who is sad to loose the ability to preview regular .fountain files from within obsidian. Are there already good solutions around?
GitHub - chuangcaleb/obsidian-fountain-editor: Obsidian plugin for formatting Fountain screenplay syntax in the editor. hasnāt been updated in a year, but it basically functions. Not sure if itās compatible with this snippet, sadly.
Hey Paul. I know about obsidian-fountain-editor. It however does not offer a readonly view (which I do need as most of the time in particular on mobile I do NOT want to edit the files, just read them (for rehearsal)), and it āmisusesā the fountain note syntax [[This is a note]] for obsidian links. Which is great for most people I suspect, but as I do need my notes to be just that ;-).
Anyhow Iāve started writing my own plugin to do the things I need. The great part of open source is that we can all try to scratch our own itches and then learn from each other.
Heya! Finally got some real life bandwidth to clean up the open-source plugin again. Replying this for the benefit of anyone reading.
The plugin does not currently intend to handle Fountain processing and exporting. This is because there are other great tools and I donāt want to complicate the plugin too much with my voluntary limited resources to maintain complexity.
What you could do is use the Obsidian Longform plugin. to compile your note into a .fountain file, and then run a script to process the Fountain markup into pdf.
Hi! Sorry for long reply. Yeah the Fountain Editor plugin does not currently intend to handle formatting in preview mode, nor exporting to PDF. For now. If youāve got developer friends, come send them over to the repo to make a PR! Thanks for trying out my plugin!
plugin devās reply here for benefit of anyone else reading:
Right on! Fountain note syntax clashes with Obsidian flavoured Markdown syntax! Iāve written a bit of the design decision for the clash here).
Always down to contribute together 