TRELBY(1)

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version 2.4.16.2 · 3 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 TRELBY(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Trelby manual page, like the actual one, from the Trelby Manual Page, and I'm about to make it make sense. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

trelby — screenwriting software. that's it, that's the vibe. screenwriting software. 🎬

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

trelby [--conf CONFFILE] [FILE...]

look at her. short, clean, iconic. two little things and she's ready to go 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so trelby is a simple, powerful, full-featured, multi-platform program for writing movie screenplays. and when I say simple I don't mean "lacking", I mean it's simple, fast and elegantly laid out so that screenwriting is actually simple, and it's infinitely configurable on top of that. yes both. she contains multitudes 💅

🌸 Features 🌸

  • Screenplay editor — enforces correct script format and pagination, plus auto-completion and spell checking. it literally holds your hand and I love that for you 🎀
  • Multiplatform — behaves identically on all platforms, generating the exact same output. no "well on my machine it looked different" energy. we don't do that here ✨
  • Choice of view — multiple views, including draft view, WYSIWYG mode, and fullscreen, so it suits your writing style. main character energy for every mood 🦋
  • Name database — a character name database with over 200,000 names from various countries. 200,000. bestie that's so many names 😭
  • Reporting — scene/location/character/dialogue reports. receipts for your own script 📊
  • Compare — you can compare scripts, so you actually know what changed between versions. no more "wait what did I delete" 💀
  • Import — screenplay formatted text, Final Draft XML (.fdx) and Celtx (.celtx). bring your old stuff, we'll take it 🫶
  • Export — PDF, formatted text, HTML, RTF, Final Draft XML (.fdx). send it everywhere ✨
  • PDF — a built-in, highly configurable PDF generator. supports embedding your chosen font. ALSO supports generating PDFs with custom watermarks, to help track shared files. watermark queen 👑
  • Free software — licensed under the GPL, and Trelby welcomes developers and screenwriters to contribute in making it more useful. come join, it's giving community 🌈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --conf CONFFILE — read the global settings from the file you give it instead of from default.conf. custom config, custom life 💅
  • FILE — open the given script file(s). yes, plural. open as many as you want 🍓

✨ FURTHER DOCUMENTATION ✨

Trelby ships with a more complete manual that you can access from its Help menu. so if you're like "okay but I need MORE", girl same, it's right there in Help 🧚

✨ AUTHORS ✨

Trelby was written by Osku Salerma and Anil Gulecha. legends, honestly.

This manual page was written in Docbook XML by Bernhard Reiter. thank you for your service 🫡💖

✨ BUGS ✨

found a bug? don't suffer in silence bestie. please report it at https://github.com/oskusalerma/trelby/issues. 🙈

and that's the whole page!! trelby 2.4.16.2, dated 10/03/2025 — so if you need me, that's the version and that's the date, and this has been your girl walking you through TRELBY(1). periodt. 💅✨🎀

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