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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

Time for action - using the Scratchpad


The Scratchpad is a handy place to keep notes and another of Celtx's writing assistants. I have the outline of "Portals" in mine for easy referral.

  1. 1. To open, click on the Scratchpad tab at the bottom of your screen and the scratchpad appears over the bottom of the script window, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Note

    Before writing any script, it's smart to outline it first. Having a roadmap prevents a lot of wrong turns and meandering around aimlessly.

  2. 2. If you click one of the other tabs (Script, Typeset/PDF, and so on), the scratchpad hides itself until the next time it's needed. While open, move the mouse cursor over its top edge, press the left button, and drag it to make it larger if needed. The next time the scratchpad is opened, that size will be remembered.

    Another use of the scratchpad would be to save bits of dialog or other information. There are two ways to do this. In the script editing window, we can select text (see the following...