The three codes on the Support page were half-block art pasted into
support.md, and markdown had been quietly shearing them. A module row whose
first module is light opens on a *space*, and every CommonMark parser eats
leading whitespace on a continuation line — so four of the fifteen rows in the
Buy-me-a-coffee code, and rows in the other two, were rendered one module to
the left of where they belong. A sheared row is not a QR; a phone gets
nothing.
Markdown grows one construct instead: a fence tagged `qr`, whose body is a URL
and whose rendering is the code for it, through the same `qr.qr_text` widget
the channel and contact share popups draw. So the link is written once, the
code can never drift from it, and a QR looks the same everywhere in MeshTerm
— black on white, which is what makes it read under any terminal palette
rather than inverted on a dark one.
The three fences replace 45 lines of art.
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The three sections were placeholders holding a shape. This writes the
first one: what MeshTerm is (one screen for what the radio can tell you,
the five menu sections as a list, and the standing promise that nothing
transmits unasked), where it came from (June 2026, a few serial scripts,
grown by the recording; the mesh's scarce airtime is why it listens more
than it speaks; later the PicoCalc), and the licence — MIT, as the
package metadata declares, with the credit MeshCore and OpenStreetMap
are owed, the ODbL by name.
The layout is unchanged: title, standfirst, three sections, rule,
colophon. It just runs longer than a screenful now, which is what the
sticky headings and the section jumps were for.
Link targets also drop a leading www., so the OSM copyright URL reads as
the host it is rather than a subdomain nobody types.
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The three About pages were scaffolding built out of Text() calls, which
made writing them a Python edit and capped what they could ever say. They
are markdown now — meshterm/assets/pages/*.md, drawn by ui/markdown.py
into the app's own language rather than markdown's: # the page's name in
brand, ## a section in the body accent (with the muted · aside), ###
indented with its prose, paragraphs and lists hanging as blocks, quotes
and fences behind a rail that survives wrapping, tables through Rich, and
links that say where they go — nothing is clickable on a framebuffer
console. Two paragraphs are page frame rather than body and sit flush and
muted: the standfirst under the title, the colophon under the closing
rule, which is where the copyright lands.
The pages stay scaffolded on purpose — the placeholders are unchanged —
but filling one in is now editing its .md, and the live package facts
arrive as {version}/{author}/{copyright} so a page still can't drift from
the build it describes.
Being a document earns the screen two things a block never had: its ##
headings are landmarks, so a heading pins while its own prose scrolls
under it and ^PgUp/^PgDn step by them, and the console lane claims
Sect ↑/Sect ↓ on the free F1/F2 pair once a page has more than one
section — dimmed while the whole page fits, since the lane never
advertises a dead key.
Parsing is markdown-it-py (already under Rich, now declared): a real
CommonMark parser, so an author writes ordinary markdown. The md.* styles
are defined in both themes; the new test renders the whole vocabulary at
53 cells and asserts it stays inside the console font and the 16 slots.
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