Slugline

Slugline is a minimal, distraction-free environment for the most important part of screenwriting: the writing part.

Slugline works with plain text. It automatically turns your writing into a properly formatted screenplay, without you ever needing to press the Tab key or touch the mouse.

No buttons. No settings. Just writing.

Note: The downloadable demo is version 1.0.7; the version available for purchase on the Mac App Store is version 1.3.1.

New

• Slugline scrolls smoother and keeps up with your typing better, even on very large, complex documents.
• Slugline should be less greedy with your laptop’s battery.
• Undo now undoes blocks of typing, rather than one letter at a time.

Improved

• Typing the @ symbol, the trick for forcing a Character element, now brings up an auto-complete menu of any forced Characters already in your screenplay.
• After pressing Return to choose a Scene Heading prefix (INT, EXT, etc.) from the auto-complete menu, the cursor now remains on the line, so you can keep typing your scene heading.

Fixed

• Undoing the creation of a Character/Dialogue pair no longer inserts random garbage into your screenplay.
• We fixed a potential memory leak.
• When reverting to a saved document, the "Loading" spinner should go away now, rather than stay there for four to eight years.
• We fixed some compatibility issues with macOS 10.13 High Sierra that were causing crashes around parentheticals.