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Spexcript -- easy layout for theater scripts

Project description

SpeXcript – makes your spex script beautiful

SpeXcript is a markup and layout system for scripts of theater plays or musicals etc. I originally made it for Fyysikkospeksi, a spex made every other year by mostly Engineering Physics undergraduate and graduate students at Aalto University. For now, it has only been for our internal use, but I am now (2015) releasing it for free and as open source. It would make me happy if someone else finds this useful.

Any feedback or suggestions are very welcome: koos.zevenhoven@aalto.fi.

Getting Started

Requirements

  • Python 3.4 (May work with older versions, but no official support)

Installation

spexcript can be installed with pip (make sure you have it installed):

$ pip install spexcript

or directly from the source code:

$ git clone https://github.com/k7hoven/spexcript.git
$ cd spexcript
$ python setup.py install

Basic Usage

The documentation for the markup language itself is on its way, but if you have a spexcript file, say myspex.sxt, you can lay it out as pdf from the command line as follows:

$ python -m spexcript myspex.sxt

The interface and documentation will be further improved in the future.

Changelog

0.3.0 (2017-04-27) – SpeXcript

  • Improve command-line interface

  • Cleaner pdftex operation from user’s perspective

  • Spexcript succeeds even with empty source file

  • Minor refactoring

  • Filter out unwanted characters that can mess up typesetting

0.2.0 (2015-06-17) – SpeXcript

  • Rebranded as SpeXcript

  • Python 3 compatibility (3.4)

  • Added @mentions with expanded names

  • Bugfixes

  • Refactoring

  • Open sourced

spextex 2 (2013)

  • Rewrote and redesigned C and bash parts, now in Python 2.7

  • Revised and more extensible syntax

  • Some original features still missing

  • Integrated version control removed (use your favorite existing VCS)

  • More customizability for different layouts and languages

spextex 0.0-1.0 (2007-2012)

  • Original version written in C, bash scripts and LaTeX for Fyysikkospeksi

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