Plain text
The universal fallback: classic screenplay layout in raw text. Everything reads it; nothing in it can surprise you.
What it carries
- scene headings, action, character cues, dialogue and transitions in classic layout
- universal readability — opens everywhere, forever
What it can't represent
- no emphasis, notes, sections, synopses or dual dialogue
- formatting is convention (uppercase cues, indentation) rather than markup
Where it came from
Plain-text screenplays predate every screenwriting app — typed layouts on fixed-width printers are the format’s ancestors.