CHANGES:

Changes

• Fmt has been rewritten from scratch to use my own library called rich-string. As such, a lot of tests have been dropped as they already exist upstream. The interface is mostly the same, besides the type itself and a few parameters that got renamed.
• Fmt.print's ending parameter now takes a Fmt.t option instead of a string option.

Features

• Ansi and Color now implement their own dedicated equality. No need to use the built-in polymorphic equality anymore.

Removed

• Fmt's serialization feature is now dependent on rich-string. Since the latter does not provide it yet, serialization was dropped for now.
• Fmt.show was also removed. On top of not being provided by rich-string and being the identity function, it was not all that useful.

hotfix for v1.0.0-pre1: update ocaml to 5.1+

1.0.0

1.0.0 is a complete rewrite of ansifmt.

At this stage, ansifmt has been fully rewritten. It now includes a test suite. This version is entirely incompatible with ansifmt 0.3.0 and older. Notably, some of its features were purposefully lost in this rewrite.
Users should expect a new library on top of this one to replace them in the future.

Changes

• ansifmt is now split in two modules: Ansi, which provides APIs for escape sequences (in Ansi), attributes as a low-level representation (in Ansi.Attribute) and terminal-compatible colors (in Ansi.Color), and Fmt, which provides a pretty-printable string API built on top of Ansi.
• The Color API has been simplified. Colors can now be constructed using built-in integers ; they will be normalized-on-demand. Advanced is now called Basic. Minimal has been dropped as it is already covered by Basic, assuming that modern terminal emulators support 8-bit colors.
• The Styling API (now called Ansi) has been tremendously simplified and is now based on a choice type instead of a record type.
• parse_hex is now of_hex_repr.
• Luminance calculation now linearizes properly the color.

Features

• A new Fmt API is available, which allows to construct strings with specific parts stylized using Ansi. This includes a convenient function, Fmt.print, to print in the terminal, stripping escape sequences when the output channel is not a TTY (by default -- this is configurable).
• Color parsing now supports deserialization of strings of the form rgb(r, g, b).
• Ansi, Attributes, Color and Fmt objects are serializable.
• Ansi objects are now deserializable.

Removed

• The Formatting API has been fully dropped. We estimate that ansifmt is not the right place to put this in. Instead, we are working on another library, built on top of ansifmt, that will provide these features in an improved manner.
• The IO API has been removed following Formatting.

Performance

No benchmark has been done, so this should be taken with a grain of salt, but it is likely that the new version exhibits better performance, due to simplification of implementation and lightening of the library overall.

Full Changelog: 0.3.0...1.0.0-pre1

CHANGES:

Features

• Add Custom token type variant which takes a styling, for tokens without particular semantics.
• Add Formatting.Element that supersedes Formatting.Tree.
• Add Formatting.Interfaces.TO_ELEMENT interface which establishes the contract to convert to a formatting element that is used by formatting and printing utilitary functions such as format and IO.print_formatted.
• Expose the Int8 module that is used by Color.
• Add Token.number to easily construct a number literal token.

Removed

• Remove Formatting.Tree, Formatting.TOKENIZABLE and its associated functions. Use Formatting.Element instead.
• Remove the Prelude module. It has merged with the core Ansifmt module.
• Remove print_formatted alias from the prelude. The function can still be found as IO.print_formatted.
• Remove make_styling alias from the prelude. The function can still be found as Styling.create.

Internal

• Renamed Utils to Internal.
• Formatting is now a directory instead of a file containing all its submodules.
• Added List.intersperse and List.singleton (used in Formatting.Element).
• Added Bool.tautology (used in Formatting.Element).

CHANGES:

Features

• Add color functions luminance and best_for_contrast. (by @chshersh in #5)
• Add styling functions fg, bg, bold, dim, italic, underlined. (by @chshersh in #6)
• Add styling composition with &. (by @chshersh in #6)
• Add function make_rgb_hex to parse hexadecimal codes into RGB colors. (by @chshersh in #7)

Breaking Changes

• Color.t and Color.Ground.t are now polymorphic variants. (by @chshersh in #5)

Removed

• Util.parenthesize_if which is deemed unuseful and is kind of a duplicate of Tree.parenthesize_if in Formatting.

CHANGES:

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where unwanted m characters would appear in the output before every colored token

CHANGES:

Fixes

• Moved Formatting.tokenize and Formatting.format to a dedicated Formatting.Util submodule - it is common for users who wish to implement TOKENIZABLE to open Formatting, and Formatting.tokenize would then shadow the user's own function, making it cumbersome if the latter was recursive.
  This does not affect the Ansifmt prelude - format stays available.

CHANGES:

Features

• Added print_formatted and the IO submodule.

CHANGES:

First pre-release.