Jackie_W thanks for the pointer very useful though not quite solving the problem
I have been looking at working on a set of CSS options to try to make the script readable (if not perfect) and my work so far has led me to this:
Code:
body { font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier }
p { font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier }
h1 { font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier; margin-left: 25em }
h2 { font-weight: normal ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier}
calibre1 { font-weight: normal ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier; margin-left: 10em}
calibre2 { font-weight: normal ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier; margin-left: 25em}
calibre3 { font-weight: normal ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier; margin-left: 20em}
br { font-weight: normal ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier; margin-left: 20em}
calibre4 { font-weight: italic ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier }
i { font-weight: italic ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier }
calibre5 { font-weight: normal ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier }
h3 { font-weight: normal ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier }
h4 { font-weight: normal ; font-size: 12pt; font-family: courier }
It is far from perfect and doesn't properly get the indented character dialogue but is just about readable.
Does anyone know if there is any flexibility on the PDF import routines when the file format is unusual (ie not like a book).
Film scripts from Final Draft and other film / tv screenplay tools have a very highly defined format which I'm sure if one could find the right place in the process to work on would be easy to analyse as it is so different.
For example centered dialogue and character names in capitals, left formatted descriptive passages and left formatted capitals being scene names. Quite a small number of conventions define the way a script is formatted but so far finding a way to convert a screen plat / script onto a Kindle 3 has proven less than satisfactory or consistent
