When a Mac develper helps port to the platform. The companies behind them have the resources to implement and maintain such features, we don't. If you need such features, you should use the commercial programs.

Production features such as page/scene locking, colored revisions, etc.

We're only a few developers working on Trelby in our spare time, so our resources are limited.Įxamples of things that will probably never be implemented in Trelby: Just do this, and import this file into Trelby, which will intelligently parse all the lines, and the screenplay should be able to make in in largely intact. If Trelby cannot import from a particular format by default, chances are you can still import it.Īny good screenwriting software can export as 'formatted text'. Can Trelby import from another screenwriting program X? Those technical problems would have to be solved before we can start supporting other languages.

Sadly, currently the program does not support writing scripts in languages that need characters from outside Latin-1, for technical reasons described in ticket 85.

This covers most of the Western European languages ( English, French, German, Italian, Finnish, etc.). Users can write scripts using all the characters in the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character set. We do not have the resources to provide translated versions of the program. The interface is English-only and will stay that way. This can mean two things: the language the program itself uses (menus, dialogs, etc.) and the language the user's screenplay is written in. Mac OS X support is possible, but needs someone to do it. Trelby currently runs on both Linux and Windows. If you are so inclined, you can even modify Trelby to suit your needs as all of the code is available under the GPL free software license. Screenwriting programs like Trelby understand these formatting guidelines and apply them automatically so you can focus on writing your script, not worrying about correct formatting. Technically you could open up Notepad and write your film there, but you'd be tearing your hair apart sticking to the format. Movie screenplays and TV scripts are written using a certain formatting style.

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