Teleprompter Script Formatter
Line breaks where you can breathe, not where the column ran out.
- 1 runs
- ~1 ms
- 100% success
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Overview
About this tool
Reflows a script to a prompter width, breaking after a sentence or a clause rather than wherever the line ends, marking the breaths, and keeping every bracketed direction on its own line. Nothing is added or removed — only the line breaks change.
Instructions
How to use it
Paste the script, set the line width for your prompter, and copy the result. Around 40 characters suits a phone in front of the lens; 60 suits a tablet further back.
Why not let the prompter wrap it
Because it wraps on width, which means a line can end on “the”. A reader who reaches the end of a line on “the” either pauses in the wrong place or races the scroll to find the noun, and both are audible. Break points here are chosen in order of preference: sentence end, then clause, then any other word.
The breath marks
A single slash ends a clause and a double slash ends a sentence, so a glance tells you how long the pause is without reading ahead.
Questions
Frequently asked
How wide should a teleprompter line be?
Narrow enough that your eyes do not travel visibly across it. About 40 characters for a phone at arm’s length, up to 60 for a screen further back.
Should a teleprompter script be in capitals?
It is a broadcast convention rather than a rule. Capitals are legible further away and measurably slower to read, because the word shape a fluent reader recognises is gone. The option is off by default.
What are the slashes for?
Breath marks. One slash is a clause and a place to take a short breath; two is the end of a sentence and a full stop you can hear.
Does it change my words?
Never. Every word comes back in the order you wrote it. Only the line breaks, and optionally the capitalisation, change.
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