Textual-EnGlyph

A large font and image rendering widget for the Textual platform.

Requirements

For this to look good you will need a terminal emulator that supports Unicode and a font that has glyphs for the Symbols for Legacy Computing block defined by Unicode version 16.0.

Known terminals

• iTerm2 (OS X)
• xfce4-Terminal (Linux)
• Terminal (Windows)
• ...and many more.

Known terminal fonts

• Cascadia Code https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/, v 2404.3 or later
• GNU Unifont http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont/, v 16.0 or later
• Iosevka https://typeof.net/Iosevka/, v 13.9.1 or later

Howto

This widget library is available as a python PyPi library.

This HowTo recommends uv to manage your python environment, see https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/ for using uv.

Install and import the text widget

uv pip install textual-englyph

Use as a module in your textual python app. Save the following simple example as text.py

from textual.app import App, ComposeResult
from textual_englyph import EnGlyphText


class Test(App):
    """Test console markup styling the englyph text use case"""

    def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
        yield EnGlyphText("From Englyph, Hello [violet]Textual!", text_size="small")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    Test().run()

and run it (use ctrl-q to exit)

uv run text.py

See Overview.md for more information regarding EnGlyph capabilities.