It's a relatively simple plain text format released under an MIT license. It's best to think of Fountain as markdown for screenwriting. Who knows? There's always a chance that someone could take the existing codebase and continue development.

Interoperability can be a bit of a sticking point, but there are other programs that can read and convert the. those features are all still available and there for you to use. And the convenience functions that maintain note cards and profiles for locations, character names, and even props. The integrated features for planning and organizing your story are useful both in screenwriting as well as writing novels. With the exception of the already mentioned features that connected to Celtx servers, all of the built-in functionality in Celtx still works rather well. However, the beauty of open source software is that the code is still out there and the program itself is still available for use. Furthermore, it no longer appears to synchronize with the closed source server component (offering cloud storage, online collaboration, and PDF conversion) that the Celtx developers used to maintain. It's true that the open source desktop version isn't seeing any active development. However, we do still have some choices open to us. So, short of creating our own fork, what options are available to those of us who write film, animation, and television scripts, but also care about using open source software? Admittedly, the field has certainly narrowed.

The developers of Celtx have been focusing all of their efforts on the web-only, software-as-a-service version of their screenwriting software. I think I was little late to the game in realizing this-after all, the last official stable release of Celtx (the open source, desktop version) was in 2012-but for folks paying attention, it's been a long time coming. While I was putting together slides for my lightning talk at Great Wide Open (happening March 16-17), Not that Weird: Open Source Tools for Creatives, I remembered that in the last half of 2015 we had a bit of a loss from our open source creative toolbox.

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