Re: Collapsible outline

[Mark Seiler markseiler@xxxxxxxx]

At 06:09 PM 2/15/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> fenda@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> 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

In addition to walk (which only runs under III+), I believe that Bob
Stone wrote his own screenplay system in XPL which included a collapsible
outliner and some integration into the boarding process. I say
"believe" both because this was a long time ago and my memory
is somewhat fuzzy (fido-net days) and because I never saw a working
version.

Mark