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TERMLAYOUT(1) General Commands Manual TERMLAYOUT(1)
TermLayout is a text-mode HTML formatter for Unix terminals which supports:
O Ruby markup (multiple rt and rb elements are stacked)
O Tables (including nesting and alignment)
O Wide characters (uses locale settings from LC_CTYPE, LANG etc)
O Smaller terminal sizes. In some cases a table will still end up being
wider than the terminal and not easily rei~owable; if that happens then
at least each cell should fit. But in many cases TermLayout can arrange
for no horizontal scrolling to be necessary.
Unrecognised markup is left in the output for inspection.
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.
If you are using TermLayout with an annotator generated by Annotator Gener-
ator, you might also be interested in tmux-annotator.sh which sets up tmux
with a "hotkey" to annotate the current screen and display the result in
TermLayout.
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O Raspberry Pi Zero W projector controller notes/projector.md
O Screenshotting Chinese Web documents for WeChat notes/screenshot.md
O Twitter on a 1982 BBC Micro notes/twitter.md
O Is the PH Corpus really public domain? notes/ph-corpus.md
O Loophole in Microsoft YaHei font license? notes/yahei.md
Silas S. Brown April 2026 TERMLAYOUT(1)
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