manuskript_md

A Python script to create Markdown-formatted text files from a Manuskript project.

Features

• Creates world.md, a Markdown-formatted text file containing the story world descriptions. The heading levels reflect the hierarchy in Manuskript.
• Creates characters.md, a Markdown-formatted text file containing the character data. The first level headings show the characters' names. The character information is structured on the second level.
• Creates manuscript.md, a Markdown-formatted text file containing all chapters and scenes.
• Creates synopses on all levels (up to 6) of the Manuskript Outline:
  • Full chapter summaries in a document per chapter level.
  • Short chapter summaries in a document per chapter level.
  • Full scene summaries.
  • Short scene summaries.
  • Scene titles.
• You can control which documents are created with the command line parameters.

Requirements

• A Python installation (version 3.6 or newer).

Download

Save the file mskmd.py.

Usage

You can start the script either from the command line, or from a batch file or shell script (that may launch pandoc afterwards).

usage: mskmd.py [-h] [-o] [-w] [-c] projectdir

Create Markdown-formatted text files from a Manuscript project.

positional arguments:
  projectdir        The Manuskript project directory.

options:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -o, --outline     Create markdown-formatted files for all levels of the
                    Manuskript outline.
  -w, --world       Create a "world.md" file.
  -c, --characters  Create a "characters.md" file.

The created text files are placed in the Manuskript project directory.

As a Manuskript user you probably have pandoc installed, so you can convert the Markdown-formatted text files into many other document formats, such as odt or docx.

Here's how the command looks like for converting the world.md file into world.odt for LibreOffice:

pandoc -o world.odt -fMarkdown-smart world.md

License

Published under the MIT License