Console Writers

We need to write to the console

Terminaux provides a vast amount of console writers for different purposes, like the progress bar writer, writing console output in color, etc. Also, you can use their Render() functions found in basically every static writer (not those that are dynamic, such as wrapped writers).

The Render() functions are made primarily for plain writing operations. You can use them with TextWriterRaw writers.

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Markups

Terminaux provides you with a simple BBCode-inspired markup syntax intended to style your own text without resorting to complicated string concatenations. It allows you to seamlessly apply formatting to different parts of text designed to be printed to the console.

You can use the markup to convert your markup text to a raw text using the following methods:

• Creating a Mark instance with your text and calling ParseMarkup().

• Calling ParseMarkup() from MarkupTools.

This is all found in the Terminaux.Writer.CyclicWriters.Renderer.Markup namespace. This maintains compatibility with Spectre.Console markup syntax to some degree.

Supported syntaxes

You can use the following syntaxes:

• Text formatting that you can use with this syntax: [format]Hello![/]

• Color specifiers that Terminaux can parse, such as Red, #FF0000, or 255;0;0.

Text formatting

As for text formatting, here are the supported formatting specifiers:

Specifier	Description
bold	Makes the surrounding text bold
conceal	Makes the surrounding text hidden
dim	Makes the surrounding text dimmer
invert	Makes the surrounding text's foreground and background color inverted
italic	Makes the surrounding text italic
rapidblink	Makes the surrounding text blink rapidly
slowblink	Makes the surrounding text blink slowly
standout	Makes the surrounding text stand out
strikethrough	Makes the surrounding text crossed out
underline	Makes the surrounding text underlined