Re: Collapsible outline

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan

I'd be interested in seeing a copy of WALK

Paul

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:09:45 -0800, wrote:
>fenda@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> My needs are very simple. In our case, the purpose of that feature
>>is
>> for movie scriptwriting. It's very useful to have a structured
>>vision of
>> the story, i.e., the possibility of switching the viewing of the
>>script
>> in progress to the headings of every scene, hiding the rest of the
>>text
>> (narrative, dialogues and so on). Then I would need only the
>>possibility
>> of hiding body text and to see only headings during the flow of
>>writing
>> (two levels and without special formatting needs beyond standard
>>XyWrite
>> possibilities). Further more, it would be very useful to have a
>>third
>> "collapsible" area for notes, technical comments and so on. It
>>could be
>> the third level in our "collapsible" outline. Then I could
>>"collapse"
>> the third level (notes) or the second level (script scenes) or
>>both (to
>> see only the headings) at my ease. I hope this explanation is
clear
>> enough.
>>
>> I have tested several suggestions but the only really viable
>>procedure
>> for my purposes is the Norman Bauman one: "I start every section
>>with a
>> boldfaced or underlined headline, so I wrote a macro to copy every
>> boldfaced or underlined line to a separate file."
>>
>
>This may or may not address your requirements -- I don't know -- but
>there
>was a dedicated package for scriptwriting called WALK. It was
>created in
>XPL: all you needed to supply was your own EDITOR.EXE. I believe
>the author
>was Ernest Wallengren, a screenwriter and Story Editor / Associate
>Producer
>on several TV series. The idea was to be able to appropriately
>format and
>paginate as you wrote (with XY), while probably making unnecessary
an
>after-the-fact package like SCRIPTOR for "B" pages etc. or
>repaginations,
>plus it had a set of related utilities that had some production-
>related
>significance which I just don't recall at this point. Whether any
>of that
>would be useful to you, or if it has any applicability to the *
>earlier*
>script process you apparently have in mind, I couldn't say. WALK
>probably
>dates back to the III+ era, but it may work with circa XY-4 Editors.
> Mr.
>Wallengren made his XPL package freely available to anyone who asked
>for it,
>back in the day, so I don't think that should be an issue. I'm sure
>I have
>a Zip archive of it around somewhere.
>
>
>Jordan