https://phosphorbbs.net/tags/parser/ Recent content in Parser on Phosphor BBS Hugo en-us Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://phosphorbbs.net/blog/markdown-in-a-terminal-building-the-markdownwidget/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://phosphorbbs.net/blog/markdown-in-a-terminal-building-the-markdownwidget/ <p>Every BBS has the same problem: text that wants to be formatted. Help screens with headings and bullet lists. News articles with paragraphs. Mail that would really use a code block for that error dump. The traditional answers are all bad in the same way — hard-coded ANSI sequences baked into strings, a private wiki-syntax nobody else can read, or walls of plain text with no structure at all.</p> <p>jterm now ships a third answer: a <strong>MarkdownWidget</strong> that parses real markdown and renders it as styled terminal lines.</p>