lowdown_term_rndr(3)

lowdown_term_rndr3

Render markdown into terminal output

Usage

#include <sys/queue.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <lowdown.h>

int

lowdown_term_rndr(struct lowdown_buf *out, void *arg, const struct lowdown_node *n);

Library

library “liblowdown”

Overview

Renders a node tree n created by lowdown_doc_parse(3) or lowdown_diff(3) using the terminal renderer arg as returned by lowdown_term_new(3). The output is written into out, which must be initialised and freed by the caller.

The output consists of UTF-8 encoded characters and ANSI (really ISO/IEC 6429) escape sequences.

The caller is expected to have invoked setlocale(3) to a "UTF-8" character encoding prior to using this function, otherwise UTF-8 sequences will not be properly recognised.

Return values

Returns zero on failure to allocate memory, non-zero on success.

Examples

The following parses bi of length bsz and outputs in ANSI terminal format.

struct lowdown_buf *out;
struct lowdown_doc *doc;
struct lowdown_node *n;
void *rndr;
if (setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8") == NULL)
	err(1, NULL);
if ((doc = lowdown_doc_new(NULL)) == NULL)
	err(1, NULL);
if ((n = lowdown_doc_parse(doc, NULL, b, bsz, NULL)) == NULL)
	err(1, NULL);
if ((out = lowdown_buf_new(256)) == NULL)
	err(1, NULL);
if ((rndr = lowdown_term_new(NULL)) == NULL)
	err(1, NULL);
if (!lowdown_term_rndr(out, rndr, n))
	err(1, NULL);
fwrite(out->data, 1, out->size, stdout);
lowdown_term_free(rndr);
lowdown_buf_free(out);
lowdown_node_free(n);
lowdown_doc_free(doc);

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13–Arch

Standards

ANSI escape codes are described in ISO/IEC 6429, previously ECMA-48.

From lowdown 3.2.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.