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Hi! I wanted to say thanks again Skorch for uploading the script. I'm curious as to your plan for this page. I saw that you removed the scene numbers and page numbers etc. Is the goal to have the script not look like a screenplay? Just asking, because I've previously worked out (on a tv show wiki I edit) a template/HTML format for making a teleplay look like a teleplay on a wiki page = formatting that correctly spaced all of the lines of dialogue to the correct indent widths. Let me know if you're interested and I can pass it along if you'd like, tweaking it for a screenplay.
Also, with such a long article page, would it be okay with you if the article page was broken up into more manageable numbered script page sections? I just tried to load the article's edit page a single time and it immediately crashed my browser tab trying to load everything all at once. X20ArchAngel09x (talk) 02:02, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
- Update: I finished adding the speaker text font color that Skorch had started to implement. I also added margin spacing to the dialogue, as I removed the center tag due to the center tag created an awkward reading experience. Other things I added were notes in the source code to show editors the page number and scene numbers. The notes need a line space above it, because if not, if the note touches the text line above it, then the text below the note will join the text paragraph above it as it there were no paragraph break at all.
- I literally spent all day working on this script article page and I'm only around ~15% finished (I estimate that as mostly I worked on pages 1-24 out of 151). The biggest time waster of all was in trying to edit the page as a whole. It's massive, with its size severely hindering load times. Every time I tried to add or subtract a line space, scroll the page, type in the edit summery, preview the page, etc. the page would temporarily go unresponsive and pause for several long seconds, culminating in hours of lost time. Eventually this led to me having to break the article page into manageable chunks of ~25 pages to speed things up.
- Another tag I removed was the poem tag. While it kept the line spaces, it didn't work well with the section headers (making it seem like they didn't exist), the break tags (creating large double spaces), or the hidden notes (showing them as a double line spaces). In removing it, the source coding reappears, the paragraph spacing is correct, as well as allows the gray boxes around the dialogue stylizing the text font to appear close to the script font. Without the poem tag, it means that by default, the text appears instead as a continuous paragraph despite the spacing in the source coding. Though not visually script like, this paragraph format does aid in reducing page length, plus makes it visually appear and read more like a story.X20ArchAngel09x (talk) 04:14, 3 April 2025 (UTC)