markdown-to-ansi

Render Markdown as ANSI-formatted terminal text

Converts CommonMark Markdown into richly formatted ANSI terminal output. Powered by pulldown-cmark for parsing and syntect for syntax highlighting (base16-ocean.dark theme).

Supported elements

• Headings (bold)
• Bold, italic, and inline code (colored)
• Links rendered as clickable OSC 8 terminal hyperlinks
• Fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting and background padding
• Tables with Unicode box-drawing borders, alignment, and bold headers
• Ordered and unordered lists with nested indentation
• Text wrapping that respects terminal width and preserves ANSI escapes

API

• render(text, opts) -- full block-level rendering (paragraphs, headings, code blocks, lists, tables)
• render_inline(text, opts) -- inline-only rendering (bold, italic, code spans, links)
• has_syntax(lang) -- check if a language token has a syntax definition

Usage

use markdown_to_ansi::{render, render_inline, Options};

let opts = Options {
    syntax_highlight: true,
    width: Some(80),
    code_bg: true,
};

// Full document rendering
let output = render("# Hello

This is **bold**.", &opts);
println!("{output}");

// Inline-only rendering (no paragraph wrappers)
let inline = render_inline("Use `foo` for **bar**", &opts);
println!("{inline}");

License

Apache-2.0