How To Install elpa-fountain-mode on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-fountain-mode
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is elpa-fountain-mode
elpa-fountain-mode is:
Fountain Mode is a complete screenwriting environment for GNU Emacs that implements the Fountain markup format. For more information about the Fountain markup format, visit https://fountain.io.
Features:
Supports Fountain 1.1 specification
Displays script format-specific auto-aligned elements
Traditional TAB writing style for auto-upcasing character names
Exports to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, Final Draft (FDX), or Fountain markup
Exports to a standalone document or snippet
Optionally show approximate page count (current page of total pages) in mode-line
Include external files with {{ include: FILENAME }}
Integrates with outline.el to fold/cycle visibility of sections and scenes
Integrates with imenu.el (sections, scene headings, notes)
Integrates with Emacs’ auto-insert hook for title page metadata
Adds/removes auto-continuation string to successively speaking characters
Navigation by section, scene, character name, or page
Optionally display scene numbers in the right margin
Intelligent insertion of a page breaks
Three levels of element syntax highlighting
Support for both official and legacy commenting (boneyard) syntax
Includes or omits a title page
Emphasis (bold, italic, underlined text)
Toggles visibility of emphasis delimiters and syntax characters
Everything is customisable
There are three methods to install elpa-fountain-mode
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install elpa-fountain-mode Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-fountain-mode
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-fountain-mode
Install elpa-fountain-mode Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-fountain-mode
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-fountain-mode
Install elpa-fountain-mode Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-fountain-mode
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-fountain-mode
How To Uninstall elpa-fountain-mode on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the elpa-fountain-mode
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-fountain-mode
Uninstall elpa-fountain-mode And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-fountain-mode
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-fountain-mode
Remove elpa-fountain-mode Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-fountain-mode
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-fountain-mode
Remove elpa-fountain-mode configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-fountain-mode
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-fountain-mode
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-fountain-mode
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.