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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Future Development of Celtx

Navigating, deleting, and reordering pages


In a Comic Book project, we do not have the usual Scenes box under the Project Library but rather a Pages box. However, it works the same way, automatically tracking page names and letting us navigate quickly to them by just double clicking on the page description. We can also delete pages.

Left clicking on the little box with the plus sign in it next to a page number expands it to show the panels, which you can act on in the same way.

Now, a final thought on writing comic books scripts. Many comic writers find the comic format hard to use and use the screenwriting format instead. That's also a part of the power of Celtx—you can do what you need to do, not what the software says you must.

Pop quiz

  1. 1. How do scripts for comics differ from all the previous Celtx projects that we've learned?

    1. a. They are printed out differently

    2. b. You are describing artwork instead of action

    3. c. You must use two-dimensional characters

    4. d. Comic character dialog is not like actors...