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http://www.keepwriting.com/tsc/newspec.htm

I do that anyway. Does that mean I was ahead of a trend? Usually I'm way, way behind.

Interesting.  I know I use to underline my scene headings with I firsted started, but quickly got away from that.  I've always liked doing it though.  Don't know if I'll go back to it, but gives me something to think about.

Ghost

Interesting... I've experimented with some of these on my new script and a few things not present here that I've been hearing about over the last 6 months or so.

1. The italic thing for inserts and supers.

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2.  Instead of using (INSERT: & BACK TO SCENE) in conjunction, I've been going right into what you're showing with a mini slug. (WHATEVER IT IS IN ALL CAPS, ONE LINE, SKIP)  It's much more effective and reads so much cleaner.

Yay! Bold slugs are now allowed to sit in the front of the bus!

I hate loathe tradition as much I love sensibility.

The new stylistic changes
Essentially, the new style uses bold and italics.  You may ask, Why haven’t bold
and italics been used before? That I can answer in one word—tradition!  In days
of old, scripts were typed on typewriters in a PICA type face (same as Courier 12-
point) which was not capable of italics or bold.  Italics were indicated by
underscoring, which is why you currently underscore important words of
dialogue.

DEAR, GOD!

It's bad enough the PC+Apple+BlackBerry+Cell Phone industries are still forcing upon us the archaic, deliberately inefficient QWERTY keyboard* in lieu of the oh-so-much-more-efficient Dvorak layout**, but the supposedly creative mainstream of The Wood has clutched it's timid little hands onto a format style due to technology that expired twenty years ago is just ridiculous.

I'm burning my bra next.


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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY_keyboard#History_and_purposes
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard

I dont see the point of Bold slugs, but whatever floats ones boat.

I do like using italics for inserts, though.