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From: adrian@mti.mti.com (Adrian McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Dialog breaks in screenplays
Keywords: script, screenplay, LaTeX
Message-ID: <851@mti.mti.com>
Date: 4 Dec 89 21:56:37 GMT
Reply-To: adrian@mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy)
Organization: Micro Technology, Anaheim, CA
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I'm finishing up a set of macros to let you typeset screenplays, teleplays, and
stageplays from within LaTeX (i.e., I'm using \newcommand and \newenvironment).

When a page break occurs in the middle of dialog, the page should end with
(CONTINUED), and the next page should start with a recapitulation of the
character speaking.  For example:

   ...
                           ADRIAN
                So I was typing along when all of
                the sudden there was this page break
                                   (CONTINUED)
----------[bottom margin, page break, and top margin of next page]-------------
                           ADRIAN (CONT'D)
                right in the middle of my dialog.
    ...

I need something equivalent to ``perform these commands if you do a page break
withing the scope of this stuff.''  Any suggestions?  I've used LaTeX to bang
out papers and screenplays for a few years, but I've never gotten too deep into
the world of macros.  For various reasons, I'd like to stay with LaTeX rather
than back off and try to do all this on top of Plain TeX.  E-mail please.

I will also make my *play macros available when they are finished along with
documentation (just to be different :-).

Aid.  (adrian@gonzo.mti.com)
Standard disclaimers.