If this is checked, I will automatically adjust the number of spaces after the end of a sentence.
If this is checked, the spelling checker will highlight words in the current element that it does not know.
This option is dimmed because “Spell Check as you Type and Edit” is unchecked.
If this option is checked (as it normally is), revising a page in a locked script will cause that page’s header to update to show the current revision draft color.
If this is checked, the page up and page down keys will move the text insertion point to keep it visible. This is to keep Windows users happy. Real Mac users should leave it unchecked.
If you want me to play a sound whenever I automatically correct a typo, select the name of a sound. To keep me quiet, select None.
If you choose this option, then when you start a character name by pressing tab, the pop-up list will highlight the last name you entered that started with the same letter. Otherwise, the highlighted name will be the alphabetically first one.
Normally, pressing tab in Dialogue takes you to a Character Name. If you choose this option, pressing tab in Dialogue takes you to a Parenthetical.
Normally, pressing return in Dialogue takes you to Action. If you choose this option, pressing return in Dialogue takes you to a new Character Name.
Normally, if you are in a ScriptNote, pressing return or enter takes you to Action. If you choose this option, pressing return will produce a hard return, continuing the same Script Note on a new line.
Normally, I expect that a Transition will be followed by a Scene Heading, but if you check this, you are telling me that a Transition should be followed by Action.
Check this if you want me to correct obvious typographical errors as you type.
Click this button to make a printout of all keyboard assignments. If you have collapsed any groups of commands using the disclosure triangles, I will ask you whether to expand them all before printing.
To change this shortcut, select this item by clicking it or using the tab key, and then type the new keystroke you want to assign to the command. To remove the shortcut, type the delete key.
This is a list of commands to which you can assign keyboard shortcuts. As in Finder lists, you can click the little triangles to hide or show groups of items. Double-click a row to change its keyboard shortcuts.
If you click this button, you will be presented with a directory dialog in which you can select a previously exported keyboard shortcut set. You will then be asked how you want to combine the imported shortcuts with the existing shortcuts.
This button discards all keyboard shortcuts.
By clicking this button, you will be able to save your keyboard shortcuts to a separate file. You could then move the file to another machine, and import the keyboard settings into another copy of the application.
Using this button, you can discard all custom keyboard shortcuts and return to the factory standard keyboard shortcuts.
If you have selected a command in the list, clicking this button will display another dialog in which you can change the keystrokes assigned to the command. This is the same thing as double-clicking a command in the list.
If this option is checked, then when printing in animation recording format, Script Notes will be framed as they normally are.
If this option is checked, then when printing in animation recording format, a Script Note before a speech will not be separated from the speech by any blank lines.
If this option is checked, then a Script Note will only be printed in animation recording format if it directly precedes a speech by a selected character.
This is dimmed because you have not checked the “Print Script Notes” option above.
Check this if you want to include script notes when printing in animation recording format.
Choose this option if you want to override the character name “blank lines before” value when printing dialogue for animation recording.
Choose this option if you want to use the normal “blank lines before” value when printing character names for animation recording.
Check this, and choose a font from the menu, if you want to use a substitute font when printing dialogue for animation recording.
Choose this option if you want dialogue to be all capitalized when printing for animation recording.
Choose this option if you want to use normal capitalization when printing for animation recording.
Choose this option if you want dialogue to be double-spaced when printing for animation recording.
Choose this option if you want to use normal line spacing when printing for animation recording.
Choose this option if you want character names to appear to the left of dialogue when printing for animation recording.
Choose this option if you want character names to appear in the normal position when printing for animation recording.
Choose this if you want dialogue numbers to print or display to the left of character names.
Choose this if you want dialogue numbers to print or display to the right of character names.
Check this if you want dialogue numbers to be in angle brackets when they print or display on screen.
Check this if you want me to check your spelling as you type.
Use this pop-up menu to choose a sound that will be played when you type a word that is not in my dictionary.
Check this if you want to be asked what to do when a misspelled word can be corrected in more than one way.
Click this if you want to hear a sound when I do not recognize a word or know how to auto-correct it.
Any word with more than this many letters will not be auto-corrected.
If this is checked, and the same auto-correction is made more than once in the same element, then I will ask whether you want to learn or ignore the word rather than making the correction.
This is dimmed because the auto-correction option is unchecked or because “Spell Check as you Type and Edit” is unchecked..
