Trelby (.trelby)
The open-source screenwriter’s format: Trelby files are simple typed XML, which makes them one of the cleanest rescue sources around.
Format facts
- Created
- 2012
- Created by
- Osku Salerma (Blyte) → the Trelby project
- Status
- Current — in active use
- Reference
- Wikipedia: Trelby ↗
Software that uses it
Native format of Trelby.
What it carries
- explicit element types on every paragraph
- simple, fully readable XML
What it can't represent
- Trelby’s feature set is text-first: no revision colors or advanced production data
Where it came from
Trelby began in 2003 as the commercial Blyte, was open-sourced and renamed in 2012, and remains free software — maintained by its community and notable for still importing formats other apps abandoned, including Adobe Story’s .astx.