Manuscript export — book & novel formats

For writers who use YarnDraft for a book rather than a game: the Story Board exports as a manuscript, not as a game script.

Access:

What gets exported

The card kind decides the structure, not the indent depth:

Card	Becomes
Act	A part heading, on its own page
Chapter	A chapter heading, on a new page
Scene / Beat	A scene inside the chapter it sits under, separated by a `* * *` scene break
Idea	Skipped, unless you tick Idea cards

A Scene card that does not sit under a Chapter card becomes a chapter of its own, so a flat outline of scenes exports cleanly too.

Only the card's Content is exported — the prose. Titles and summaries stay out unless you ask for them.

Format	Purpose
Word (.docx)	Standard manuscript layout: 12pt Times New Roman, double spaced, indented paragraphs, chapters starting on a new page. This is what agents and publishers ask for.
Markdown (.md)	Obsidian, iA Writer, Ulysses, GitHub
EPUB (.epub)	A draft to read on an e-reader or send to beta readers
Plain text (.txt)	Works anywhere; scene breaks marked with `#`
Fountain (.fountain)	Screenplay format — Final Draft, Highland, Scrivener

Print / PDF renders the same manuscript with a title page and prints it through the system dialog, where Save as PDF produces the file.

Scene titles — print the scene card titles above their prose. Off by default; working titles rarely belong in a manuscript.
Summaries — add each card's summary as an italic synopsis line. Useful when the export is an outline or a synopsis rather than the book.
Idea cards — include Idea cards as scenes. Off by default, since they are notes.

The word count in the dialog counts the exported prose only, so it matches what lands in the file.
The author byline comes from the project's authors.
The DOCX and EPUB files are written by the app itself with no compression, which every reader and Word accept; the files are a little larger than a zipped equivalent.