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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 - adding a title page


Okay, now that we've told Celtx we want a title page included, let's set one up. Left click on the Title Page button at the bottom of the main script window, as shown in the following screenshot:

The title page form, as we've seen most recently in Chapter 7, appears in the main script window of the Celtx screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

Fill it out by typing in the boxes. I've entered my title, my name as author, the work it's based on (this book), and my contact information.

Also add a copyright! Use a c in parentheses (c) to indicate the copyright symbol. While you could type the Alt-0169 key combination for an actual "c in a circle" copyright symbol, the PDF conversion program out there on the Internet does not convert it correctly, so use the above workaround. It's just as legal.

What I said in Chapter 7 about not putting a copyright only applies to spec scripts. Everything else, including audio-visual scripts, should have a copyright notice...