Hi,
May I suggest using
rich text format (as an option)? Not that it is elegant, or anything like that, but because it is easily edited in default text editors for macOS and Windows, and can use font, color and alignment information.
From a more practical standpoint I guess some kind of xml would be easier for people to grasp. Personally I'd like to be able to create some kind of text styles inside the plug in and then do some kind of xml to apply just the styles in the input file. Thus it would be possible to append output from different plug-ins to the text file consistently, and thus create a fantastic end titles solution.
I'm going to outline some scenarios I think would be enlightening on what one user (me) would like to do, and why, and hopefully you will take the input and make it great :)
End titles
A lot of royalty free graphics, music, video require attributions, and fortunately there are metadata solutions to save this information inside the data files. I want to extract that (via scripting) information and append to various "attribution" files. One for music, one for photos, etc. So when I use them inside OBS, the metadata will be saved. Then at the end of show all those files will be concatenated with the other information from some other files (guest lists, thank you, etc) until one eat-titles file which would scroll at the end of the show by using your plugin to format the output.
So each file would be a section in the end titles so a bit like thus:
Host------- Paul Egell-Johnsen
Guests----M. E.
--------------Test. best.
Music
lifepainting by Muciojad
https://soundcloud.com/muciojad
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Music provided by Audio Library
https://youtu.be/3feCSMbSZQA
Bonus:
The same info would go into html files for usage in video descriptions (as is required by most royalty free sources).
I'm looking forward to whatever solution you make with great anticipation, meanwhile I'll just do this in plain text :)
