Document Layout

Managing the layout of a screenplay document is fairly straightforward. To begin with, all pages in a document share the same paper dimensions and page margins. These can be changed or customized under Document > Page Layout. Measurements can be entered in inches or centimeters, and are displayed according to the application's Preferences.

More and Continued
By default, the application will add "(MORE)" to dialogue that continues over a page break and "(cont'd)" to the top of the next page as well as to any dialogue by the same character as the last-spoken dialogue in the scene. The display of these additional elements, as well as continuation for scenes, can be found under Document > More and Continued.

Header and Footer
You can provide custom text to go in the header and/or footer, as well as specifying formatting of page numbers. When specifying the page number format, use # to stand in for the actual page number, * for the name of the current page revision, ** for the current document revision, and @ for the current date. To include a literal placeholder instead of what it represents, put a backslash (\) before it.

For instance, "@  * revisions     Page\# #" will produce a page number that looks something like: "2021-01-31  Blue revisions     Page# 10"

You can also use the field placeholders:

Title page bookmarks can also be used as field placeholders to use information from the title page in the header or footer, including {Title}, {Subtitle}, {Author}, {Contact}, {Copyright}, and {Draft}.

Additionally, a numbered element name can be specified as {ElementName}, so if, for instance, scenes were currently numbered, a {Scene Heading} placeholder would be replaced with the current scene number. Follow the placeholder with "0n", where n is a number from 1-9, to pad the number with zeroes up to n digits, i.e., {Scene Heading}03 (or just {Scene}03) for "001", "002", etc.

A field can contain optional formatting that appears only if the placeholder produces text by adding "?". For instance, {Revision? revisions} will add " revisions" to result in "Blue revisions" if the current document revision is Blue, but will add nothing if the document revision is White (i.e., no revisions).

Page Numbering
Page numbering is set up by default for standard numbering starting at 1. They can be locked during production to insert A pages, etc. Page numbers can be formatted under Document > Header and Footer.

Scene/Element Numbering
Scene numbers are generally not included in early drafts, and are enabled once the screenplay reaches the shooting script stage. Scene numbers can be shown or hidden under Production > Scene Numbers. When specifying element number formatting, use # to stand in for the current numbered element number, or {ElementName} for a different numbered element. Follow the placeholder with "0n", where n is a number from 1-9, to pad the number with zeroes up to n digits, i.e., {Scene Heading}03 (or just {Scene}03) for "001", "002", etc.

Both page numbers and scene numbers can be locked and edited during the production process. See Production Tools for more information about numbering.



Title Page

A title page is a separate, fully editable sub-document within your screenplay document. Select Document > Title Page to show it for editing.

Title pages use special bookmarks to mark their various components. Title page bookmarks are optional, but used to refer to title page components in the header/footer, and when outputting to certain formats.

Title - the title of the screenplay, or show title for a television show.

Subtitle - if there is a subtitle or episode title, it would be this. (Metadata for PDF, epub, etc. will show the title as "Title: Subtitle".)

Author - the name(s) of the author(s)

Copyright - the copyright attribution, such as "Copyright (c) (Year)".

Contact - address, telephone, and/or email information.

Draft - for instance, "FIRST DRAFT" or "FINAL DRAFT", a list of all revised drafts to this point, by color, etc.

For title page bookmarks that may need to refer to text on multiple lines, such as a mailing address under Contact, put all the information in single element paragraph and separate the lines with Shift+Enter.