The README advertised a Codeberg URL, but the repository lives at
code.randogoth.com. Verified that the new URL resolves over HTTPS, which
is what `uv tool install --from git+...` needs.
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The README explained the design before it explained the output. Someone
arriving with a document in hand had to read four sections of rationale
before learning what a heading or a table actually becomes.
The mapping now comes first and is complete: every Markdown construct
against the markup wapdown emits for it, with the WML-side reasons in a
notes column rather than in prose. Each row was checked against real
output rather than carried over from the old text.
Cut the "why this is not just another text exporter" section down to two
sentences in the intro, folded the navigation and image prose into small
tables, and dropped the separate Architecture section into the end of
Development. 210 lines to 164, 1673 words to 1176, with more of the
reference material a user actually looks things up in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
WML has no horizontal rule element -- its entire %layout entity is
`<br>` -- so a thematic break was being rendered as `<p>------------</p>`,
a hardcoded twelve-dash guess at screen width that wraps into nonsense on
a narrow device and is short on a wide one. It was the one construct
where the renderer invented a width out of nothing.
A `---` already looks like a divider and reads as one in every Markdown
document ever written, so it now is one: it starts a new card, by
default. Rules are never drawn, whether or not they divide.
Thematic breaks and `{.card Title}` markers are now a single mechanism --
an explicit divider, optionally carrying a title -- and compose freely in
one document. Both still win over --split-level. A section takes its
title from its own first heading when the divider does not supply one, so
the common shape needs no titles at all:
Intro on the menu.
---
## Weather
Cold and clear.
`--no-split-on-rule` / `split_on_rule: false` opts out of the splitting;
it does not bring the dashes back.
Three edges this opened, each fixed here rather than left to bite:
- Setext headings. `Heading` over `---` is an H2 in Markdown, but the
parser was ATX-only, so it produced a paragraph plus a rule. Once a
rule divides cards, a setext document would have split at every heading
and stranded each heading as body copy on the card before it. Setext
headings are now parsed, so such a document keeps its structure.
- Empty sections. A trailing `---`, or two in a row, produced an empty
"Untitled" card and a menu entry leading to it. Sections with no
renderable content are dropped.
- The multi-card threshold was two sections, so a document with a single
divider collapsed back into one card. Any explicit divider now makes a
multi-card deck: `A --- B` asks for two screens.
Also fixes a latent frontmatter bug this made far more likely: a document
opening with `---` and no `key: value` lines had its opening swallowed as
if the break were a frontmatter fence. A fenced block with no keys in it
is not frontmatter.
222 tests. Rendering examples/trail.md still matches md2txt's committed
output byte for byte; no golden file contains an ASCII rule any more.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
md2txt is a suite of minimal text-based markup exporters, and every other
renderer in it (text, micron, ama, gemini, nex) is a straight transform of
a document into a flat text format. The WML renderer is neither: it emits
an XML tree, and it restructures the document rather than transforming it
-- splitting one file into many <card>s, inventing navigation between
them, building a menu card that exists in no source document, and
paginating on a byte budget. That is why it needed levers no sibling
renderer needed, and why it alone forced a CARD_BREAK block kind and a
{.card} directive into the shared parser that every other renderer
ignores.
wapdown is that renderer given a repository of its own, where
restructuring a document into a navigable deck is the point.
Ported: the Markdown parser, block event models, and pipeline core, each
trimmed to what a deck compiler actually uses (no FIGlet, no hyphenation,
no ASCII-art includes, no text-layout frontmatter), plus the eight inline
regexes the renderer had been borrowing from a 1039-line text renderer.
The plugin registry comes along so other WAP-era targets can register
alongside wml later. Zero runtime dependencies.
Config is now first-class: every lever is an argparse flag with
validation and a frontmatter equivalent, layered CLI > frontmatter >
default, replacing the generic --renderer-option KEY=VALUE passthrough.
Five defects found while reading the code, each with a regression test:
- Link and image URLs were shredded by the emphasis patterns, which ran
before LINK_RE: a path like /v1_2_3/ became /v1<i>2</i>3/ inside the
href. Links and images are now resolved and stashed first.
- <table> was emitted as a direct child of <card>. The WML 1.3 content
model is (onevent*, timer?, (do | p | pre)*), so it must sit in a <p>.
- Link labels carried emphasis, but <a> is declared (#PCDATA | br | img)*
-- there is nowhere valid for a <b> inside one. Markers are now stripped.
- The menu card was built directly and never byte-packed, so the one card
most likely to be large was the one card exempt from the budget.
- Output was written with CRLF line endings. WML is XML served over HTTP.
New, WAP-idiomatic rather than Markdown-idiomatic:
- deck-level <template> hoisting nav that would otherwise repeat per card
- <select> menus, picked with a keypad digit instead of scrolled to
- --deck-per-card, one file per section cross-linked by filename, which
is the real answer to per-deck cache limits
- <head> metadata: Cache-Control max-age and <access>
- a Home options softkey, which <prev/> alone cannot provide
- an image policy (keep/alt/drop) for the WBMP-only reality of WAP 1.x
browsers -- no conversion is performed
186 tests, where neither repo had any. Golden files pin whole-document
output; every deck is validated against the real WML 1.3 DTD, vendored at
tests/dtd/wml13.dtd. Rendering examples/trail.md still matches md2txt's
committed output byte for byte, modulo the CRLF fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
