Is the .fountain.md an intended feature? If so what do you reccomend for easy exports instead of better fountain on vscode?

[Cricket742]

I really love this plugin, but now I can only get it to work is if I use the .md file extension. This is fine for editing, but not great for exporting since it's no longer a .fountain file and better fountain no longer works. I think this is a feature, and if it is, does anyone have another way to export my screenplays to pdf without having to change the file extension back and forth?

[chuangcaleb]

To answer the title question:

.fountain

Like you explained, for easy direct use in external tools like BetterFountain. However, you will need a plugin like Custom File Extensions: An obsidian plugin allowing you to register and view different file extensions in a modular manner. to enable editing it directly in Obsidian, because Obsidian natively only allows editing of .md files.

.fountain.md

Since it is technically of .md file extension, so Obsidian will treat it like any other note. I learnt this from .excalidraw.md file extensions. To use with other tools that only recognise a .fountain extension, you could copy paste the contents over, but you should be using a toolchain like the Longform plugin to preprocess, cleanup, and export to .fountain!

Comments

It is flexible to each user's workflow, what fits best for them!

There was an issue (#54) where .fountain were not recognised to be marked for Fountain formatting, that is resolved as of now.