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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-14 20:18:28 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/source/text.rst b/docs/source/text.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50113d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/source/text.rst @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +.. _rich_text: + +Rich Text +========= + +Rich has a :class:`~rich.text.Text` class you can use to mark up strings with color and style attributes. You can use a Text instance anywhere a string is accepted, which gives you a lot of control over presentation. + +You can consider this class to be like a string with marked up regions of text. Unlike a builtin ``str``, a Text instance is mutable, and most methods operate in-place rather than returning a new instance. + +One way to add a style to Text is the :meth:`~rich.text.Text.stylize` method which applies a style to a start and end offset. Here is an example:: + + from rich.console import Console + from rich.text import Text + + console = Console() + text = Text("Hello, World!") + text.stylize("bold magenta", 0, 6) + console.print(text) + +This will print "Hello, World!" to the terminal, with the first word in bold magenta. + +Alternatively, you can construct styled text by calling :meth:`~rich.text.Text.append` to add a string and style to the end of the Text. Here's an example:: + + text = Text() + text.append("Hello", style="bold magenta") + text.append(" World!") + console.print(text) + +Since building Text instances from parts is a common requirement, Rich offers :meth:`~rich.text.Text.assemble` which will combine strings or pairs of string and Style, and return a Text instance. The follow example is equivalent to the code above:: + + text = Text.assemble(("Hello", "bold magenta"), " World!") + console.print(text) + +You can apply a style to given words in the text with :meth:`~rich.text.Text.highlight_words` or for ultimate control call :meth:`~rich.text.Text.highlight_regex` to highlight text matching a *regular expression*. + + +Text attributes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The Text class has a number of parameters you can set on the constructor to modify how the text is displayed. + +- ``justify`` should be "left", "center", "right", or "full", and will override default justify behavior. +- ``overflow`` should be "fold", "crop", or "ellipsis", and will override default overflow. +- ``no_wrap`` prevents wrapping if the text is longer then the available width. +- ``tab_size`` Sets the number of characters in a tab. + +A Text instance may be used in place of a plain string virtually everywhere in the Rich API, which gives you a lot of control in how text renders within other Rich renderables. For instance, the following example right aligns text within a :class:`rich.panel.Panel`:: + + from rich import print + from rich.panel import Panel + from rich.text import Text + panel = Panel(Text("Hello", justify="right")) + print(panel) + + |