Highlight characters to place emphasis on individual characters and his / her dialogue.
Highlight individual characters to easily find where that character appears in the script.
Highlighting multiple characters can aid the planning and scheduling of a performance.
This feature may be used for table reads and to distribute a copy of the script to each cast member with his / her own lines highlighted.
If a character or characters are highlighted, the colors will be displayed when a PDF of the script is created. If a color printer is being used and Print Text in Color is selected in the Print window, the character highlighting will be printed exactly as it is onscreen.
Choose Format > Highlight Characters and the Highlight Characters dialogue appears. In this example, Tangle and her dialogue will be highlighted in blue:
- Choose a character;
- Click the down-pointing arrow to select a color from the list;
- Click OK to apply the highlighting and return to the script.
To use a color that is not on the list, choose Custom to define a color. A standard Mac or Windows color picker will be displayed.
Click the check box next to a character's color picker to highlight that character in the script. Check the Display All check box to highlight all the characters. Uncheck the Display All check box to turn off character highlighting for all characters.
This is how a highlighted character appears in the script:
One, some or all characters may be highlighted at any time.
Character names and their dialogues may also be highlighted in a Character Navigator tab (see Character Navigator).
For more information on highlighting characters watch the following video: