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Before: the only switch for a terminal was hyperlinks (OSC 8 on or off). A command link was always plain text, and a Figure was always its text art.

After: AnsiOutputOptions describes one client: colour depth, TerminalFeatures, and an ITerminalPictureSource that supplies pixels. With it:

  • CommandLinks writes command links as MSLP (ESC]68;1;SEND;cmd BEL + underlined text).
  • A Figure laid out under LayoutContext.Pictures reserves its picture's cells and marks each row with PictureCellsMarkup over the art. The ANSI emitter draws the picture there:
    • KittyGraphics: Unicode placeholders (U+10EEEE with row/column diacritics, id as a truecolor foreground). The picture is sent once per connection with a=T,U=1,q=2, as zlib RGBA in 4096-byte chunks.
    • InlineImages (iTerm2) and Sixel: the cursor makes room below with ESC D, the picture is drawn between ESC 7/ESC 8, and each row steps over its cells with CSI n C, so no text is written over the picture.
    • BlockArt: ▀/▄ half blocks at the client's colour depth.
  • Without the pixels or the feature, the row is the art, so output is the same as today.

The rows are the same width whichever way they're drawn, so a box or flex row round the figure stays aligned (there is a test for this).

How: the picture writers live in TerminalPictureWriter, with a small PNG encoder (for iTerm2), a 216-colour sixel encoder and an area-averaging scaler. The package still does no I/O: fetching and decoding a file is the host's job. All additions are additive. The (depth, hyperlinks) overloads stay, mapped onto the new options, so package validation against 2.11.1 passes.

Tests: TerminalFeatureTests (18) covering links, layout marking, Kitty chunking/ids/placeholders/once-only sending, iTerm2 PNG validity, sixel size and bands, half blocks, and alignment. The full suite passes locally (1049).

SharpMUSH wires this up per connection in a follow-up PR; TelnetNegotiationCore#142 adds the terminal probe it uses.

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  • New Features
    • ANSI output can now be configured for terminal capabilities, including hyperlinks, command links, and picture rendering.
    • Figures can display pictures in supported terminals using Kitty Graphics, iTerm2 images, or Sixel, with block-art or text fallbacks when needed.
    • Picture layouts preserve image proportions and align with surrounding text.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on supported terminal features and picture rendering behavior.

AnsiOutputOptions describes one client: colour depth, TerminalFeatures
(Hyperlinks, CommandLinks, KittyGraphics, InlineImages, Sixel, BlockArt)
and an ITerminalPictureSource for pixels. A Figure laid out under
LayoutContext.Pictures marks each row of its cells with PictureCellsMarkup;
the ANSI emitter draws the picture there or leaves the art.

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ANSI output now supports configurable links and picture protocols. Figure layout can reserve cells for images, and ANSI emission can render supplied pixels as Kitty graphics, inline images, Sixel, or block art.

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ANSI terminal features and pictures

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reserve picture cells in figure layout
MarkupString/Elements/PictureCellsMarkup.cs, MarkupString/Layout/Blocks/Block.cs, MarkupString/Layout/Blocks/Figure.cs, MarkupString/PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt, MarkupString.Tests/Ansi/TerminalFeatureTests.cs
Adds picture-cell markup and aspect-ratio fitting. Figure rows carry picture metadata when the layout callback returns valid cells; tests cover layout and text-art fallback.
Configure ANSI output and link features
MarkupString.Ansi/AnsiOutputOptions.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/AnsiRegistration.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/TerminalFeatures.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/TerminalPicture.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/AnsiEmitterSupport.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/AnsiSetEmitter.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt, MarkupString.Ansi/AnsiColorDepth.cs, MarkupString.Tests/Ansi/TerminalFeatureTests.cs
Adds options for color depth, terminal features, cell dimensions, and picture sources. ANSI link output uses OSC 8 for supported URLs and MSLP for supported command links without control characters; other cases use plain text.
Encode and render terminal pictures
MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/TerminalPictureWriter.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/PictureScaler.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/PngWriter.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/SixelWriter.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/PictureEncodings.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/AnsiSetEmitter.cs, MarkupString.Tests/Ansi/TerminalFeatureTests.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/README.md, CHANGELOG.md
Adds picture scaling, PNG and Sixel encoders, cached encodings, and protocol-specific rendering. Tests cover transmission, placement, encoding, and block-art output. Documentation records the terminal features and rendering behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant FigureDraw
  participant LayoutContext
  participant AnsiSetEmitter
  participant ITerminalPictureSource
  participant TerminalPictureWriter
  FigureDraw->>LayoutContext: Request fitted picture cells
  LayoutContext-->>FigureDraw: Return cell dimensions
  FigureDraw-->>AnsiSetEmitter: Emit picture-cell rows
  AnsiSetEmitter->>ITerminalPictureSource: Look up picture pixels
  ITerminalPictureSource-->>AnsiSetEmitter: Return picture data
  AnsiSetEmitter->>TerminalPictureWriter: Render rows using enabled terminal feature
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A host that passes a zero cell size, as terminals report when the size is unknown, can crash ANSI output for that connection when Sixel is used. Colourless clients with BlockArt see meaningless blocks in place of the figure's art. Validate the cell sizes before merging.

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Encodings (Kitty transmission, iTerm2 PNG, sixel, half-block rows) are kept
with the TerminalPicture, so every connection shown a picture at a size gets
a copy. Kitty now sends a PNG (f=100); PNGs are RGB when opaque, filtered Up,
at zlib level 2. Sixel reads each band once and writes a colour only over the
columns it reaches, with P2=0 for an opaque picture. Half blocks scale the
picture once rather than once per row. Large payloads go straight to the
output instead of through the run's buffers.

On a 512x384 picture in 60x23 cells: Kitty 25 ms -> 16 ms to encode and
777 -> 423 KiB on the wire, 1.2 ms for each later connection; iTerm2 25 ->
13 ms; sixel 20 -> 7 ms; half blocks 14 -> 3 ms.

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Review comments at @MarkupString.Ansi/AnsiOutputOptions.cs:
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while preserving their existing defaults of 10 and 20. Reuse the validation
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`TerminalFeatures.BlockArt` as unavailable when `options.ColorDepth` is
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A terminal that does not know its cell size reports 0, and a sixel at
width 0 divided by zero. Half blocks at Attributes or None depth lost
every colour and were a grid of identical blocks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01448U5MvpKkRkBjwzkkpPFP
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