Calculate screenplay statistics over multiple files

[NQNStudios]

I've been liking this extension a lot so far! Thanks for making it.

"Calculate screenplay statistics" is a useful feature. One thing I wish it could do, is get statistics of a combined set of files. For example, if I have a folder for a season of TV scripts, 101.fountain, 102.fountain, etc., I want to be able to calculate statistics on all of them as if they were one big file.

It'd be a little more complex but also cool, to calculate statistics for each episode and show them in a comparison view.

[piersdeseilligny]

Glad you've been enjoying it! So it turns out I've been completely overhauling the statistics system for a little while now (in the feature-statsrevamp branch). It currently looks like this:

I have to admit I hadn't at all thought of your scenario, but I see how it could be useful - however as you can see in the screenshot, the new statistics panel has got some more interactive elements than currently (mainly the runtime action/dialogue graph for the moment) which would make adding the ability to combine files a little complicated, because a statistics panel is now more or less tied to a single document (like the preview panels).

A "hacky" but simple way of achieving what you're describing could be if betterfountain were to internally join all the documents together, and then analyse them as if they were a single "virtual" document (although any interactive features would then be disabled)