I am seeing several posts about gemini text format and Markdown. I agree with all sides on this: Markdown is absolutely amazing and yes, having so many small differences kinda sucks, which makes it a bad interchange format.

Gemini text is simpler than Markdown and defined just good enough for its purpose.

And something like this has been done before: John August and Stu Maschwitz found that screenplays have a very predictable format and a Markdown-like approach can make this a lot easier, hence Fountain (once ScreenPlayMarkDown, SPMD).

I created a command line tool myself to convert Fountain to PDF, and I really love and support Better Fountain, a Visual Studio Code addon for writing screenplays that uses Fountain. I absolutely recommend you to give that a look.

Lexington, my command line tool written in Go for Fountain

The official Fountain website

Stu's website

John's website

The most interesting part of me getting into this is that before this I had no idea how I should write any kind of script, what to put in and what to leave out, and diving into Fountain and works around it definitely gives me a better idea. I'm still pretty much too nerdy probably to actually create a good movie this way though...

Posts that prompted this post

Why Markdown sucks

I love Markdown (was RE: Why Markdown sucks)

Role of Gemini Text