Glossary

The words script.pub uses, and what they mean.

script.pub has its own small vocabulary — some of it borrowed from screenwriting and publishing, some of it particular to the app's data-driven format engine. This is a quick reference. The core app terms come first, then the script-craft words, then the general publishing terms behind them.

Core app terms

Section: A named document within a draft — the app's top-level parts of a work. The reserved Body section is the main text; a format also declares sections such as Title page, Synopsis, Notes, and Footnotes. (Formerly called a "role.")
Division: A structural subdivision within the body — the headings that break a work into parts: act, sequence, and scene in a screenplay; act and scene in a play; part and chapter in a novel; part and section in a document. Divisions nest by rank, can be numbered or counted, and drive the navigator's jump menu. (Formerly called a "section.")
Body: The reserved main-text section of a script — the one continuous document that is the work itself.
Draft: One version of a script. Technically a map of section → document, so a draft carries the body along with the title page, notes, and any other sections the format declares.
Script: A single work. A script is either solo or part of exactly one series.
Series: An optional ordered grouping of scripts, with a manual drag-order.
Format: The per-script, data-driven definition of a script's block types — their styling, keyboard flow, and the section and division structure. Seeded from a preset and editable in the visual Format editor.
Block: A single paragraph-level unit of the document. Every paragraph is one block.
Kind: A block's type identity within a format — for example action, dialogue, or scene heading. The kind is looked up in the format to style, label, and flow the block.

Script-craft terms

Cue: A character cue — a block whose text is a speaker's name. Cues feed the character index.
Scene heading / Slugline: The block that begins a scene: INT./EXT., the location, and the time of day.
Action: Description of what happens on screen.
Dialogue: The spoken lines a character says.
Parenthetical: A short direction inside dialogue — the (wryly) that colours a line.
Transition: A cut between scenes — for example CUT TO: or FADE OUT.
Outline: The derived list of divisions in the body, used for navigation. It is not stored; it is read live from the document.
Navigator: The sidebar that lists the body's divisions (scenes and other headings) and its characters, so you can jump around a script.
Title page, Synopsis, Notes, Footnotes: The non-body sections a format declares. Notes and footnotes stay out of print and export unless you ask for them.
Translation layer / language: An optional parallel document per translatable section, aligned to its source by block id so a translation stays in step as the original moves.
Guest tier / Cloud tier: The storage tiers. Guest keeps your work in the browser — per-tab, or permanently on this device. Cloud is the signed-in tier that syncs a replica across devices.

Publishing terms

Front matter / back matter: Everything before and after the main text of a book: front matter is the title page, foreword, and contents; back matter is the appendices, notes, and index.
Body matter: The publishing name for the main text of a book — the chapters themselves. In a screenplay the same thing is just "the body of the script."
Foreword: A short introductory piece written by someone other than the author, usually vouching for the work.
Preface: The author's own note about the book — how and why it came to be — standing apart from the main text.
Introduction: The author's opening that is part of the work itself, setting up what the main text will cover.
Appendix: Supplementary material placed in the back matter — reference tables, documents, or notes that support the main text without interrupting it.