From: owner-comix-biz-digest@lists.xmission.com (comix-biz-digest) To: comix-biz-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: comix-biz-digest V2 #35 Reply-To: comix-biz-digest Sender: owner-comix-biz-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-comix-biz-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes comix-biz-digest Saturday, March 7 1998 Volume 02 : Number 035 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 19:56:14 +0100 From: Jim Drew / Ciao! Publications Subject: Scriptwriting (was Re: (cbiz) Re: comix-biz-digest V2 #17) Dead Man Glenning writes: >>Jake's search for a comics authoring software program sound intriguing - >>but if everybody had the same program, all stories would be fairly much >>alike. > >you can achieve screenplay formatting with any >word processing program that can do stylesheets and glossaries And if anyone is high-end enough, I have a FrameMaker+SGML element definition document for scriptwriting (which allows for "guided editing" by pre-selecting or prompting for the next component and does validation checking to verify adherence to the guides; kind of the next step beyond style sheets into more structured content). (But to reiterate, the "gutters" list is the proper location for this discussion on *creating* comics. Comix-biz is not.) Jim - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Drew ciaopubs@earthlink.net B3(v)h+ t e cd s k g+(p) rv q p Secretary, IAGLCWDC - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ She looked up and arched an eyebrow. "Hasty Pudding?" "All the *good* super-speed names were already taken." -- Marc Lynx, "Belles" - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info comix-biz" in the message. # Postings must go to comix-biz@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ End of comix-biz-digest V2 #35 ******************************