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TermLayout
TermLayout is a text-mode HTML formatter for Unix terminals which supports:- Ruby markup (multiple
rt
andrb
elements are stacked) - Tables (including nesting and alignment)
- Wide characters (uses locale settings from LC_CTYPE, LANG etc)
- Smaller terminal sizes. In some cases a table will still end up being wider than the terminal and not easily reflowable; if that happens then at least each cell should fit. But in many cases TermLayout can arrange for no horizontal scrolling to be necessary.
TermLayout is not a Web browser: it has no facilities for navigating links. It is meant only for formatting text on a terminal using HTML markup. I wrote it when I wanted to page through a document with Ruby markup in fbterm
but couldn't find a text-mode browser that would format this markup correctly.
Download termlayout.py; you will need Python (2 or 3) and a command prompt. (You can also use pip install termlayout or pipx run termlayout if you prefer, and there is history on GitHub.)
- If you are using TermLayout with an annotator generated by Annotator Generator, you might also be interested in this tmux-annotator script which sets up
tmux
with a "hotkey" to annotate the current screen and display the result in TermLayout.
TermLayout is free software licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
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