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Replaces #15 and #16. Those added per-dialect element APIs (MxpElements.Sound, PuebloElements.Sound), so an author had to know the client before writing a sound. This PR adds one vocabulary instead: you say a thing once, and each format writes it in its own dialect or stands something else in for it.

The vocabulary

The types live in core and describe the thing itself. Each format package decides how its format writes it:

Factory MXP (WithMxp) Pueblo (WithPueblo) HTML (WithHtml) ANSI / BBCode / Plain
Sound, Music <SOUND>, <MUSIC> <img xch_sound="play"|"loop" href> <audio preload="none"> nothing
StopSound <SOUND Off> / <MUSIC Off> <img xch_sound="stop" xch_device> ms-sound-stop nothing
Image <IMAGE> <img> <img> the description or address; BBCode [img]
Pane <FRAME><DEST>…</DEST> <xch_pane action="redirect">… and back to _previous ms-pane the text
ClearScreen nothing <xch_page clear="text"> ms-clear ANSI ESC[H ESC[2J
Prefetch nothing <xch_prefetch href xch_prob> <link rel="prefetch"> nothing
ExpireLinks <EXPIRE> nothing ms-expire nothing
Variable, Gauge, Status <VAR>, <GAUGE>, <STAT> the text ms-* spans the text
Relocate, LoginPrompt <RELOCATE>, <USER>/<PASSWORD> nothing nothing nothing
  • Links are part of the vocabulary. A command link is already written per dialect by AnsiMarkup with a LinkKind, so a picture inside a link is a clickable picture in every format.
  • MXP capability gating. WithMxp(supports) takes the client's <SUPPORT> answer as a predicate over MxpRegistration.Elements. An element the client refused is written as a format without MXP writes it.
  • Serialisation. The vocabulary is serialised as built-in kinds, so storing text that carries it needs no package registered.

Pueblo corrections, from the client source

The Pueblo client source (uecasm/pueblo) shows three things #16 got wrong:

  • xch_sound is a command (play / loop / stop), and the file goes in href.
  • xch_speech is Voxware voice chat, not text-to-speech, so it is gone.
  • xch_prefetch reads href and ignores the tag without a nonzero xch_prob.

Panes redirect the stream to a named pane and back to _previous; they are not a wrapping element.

MXP gets a correction from the specification too: text goes to a frame through <DEST>. <FRAME> is a declaration, not a container.

Behaviour changes

  • Points (IPointMarkup): a sound, a bell or a clear rides on a carrier that is not text.
    • ToPlainText(), ToString() and equality leave the carrier out.
    • A format with no emitter for a point writes nothing, not even the styling around it.
    • Text still holds the carrier, so positions are unchanged.
    • This is what lets SharpMUSH match a listen pattern against text that carries a sound. The bell now follows the same rule.
  • Nesting inside ANSI styling. A foreign layer nested inside ANSI styling now renders inside it. Wrap(red, Wrap(b, "x")) in HTML was <b><span …>x</span></b> and is now <span …><b>x</b></span>.
    • Found because a picture inside a command link lost the link in Pueblo.
    • Five tests pinned the old order and the html-b-in-colour snapshot inverted its own name; all are updated.

Also

  • The 2.2.0 release checklist was unfinished: its API was still in PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt, and validation diffed against 2.1.0. It is promoted and the baseline is now 2.2.0, in its own commit.
  • The CHANGELOG gains a 2.2.0 heading.
  • The CI format job now covers the two new projects.

Verification

  • 634/634 tests pass.
  • dotnet pack passes against the 2.2.0 baseline.
  • The native AOT publish emits no IL warnings, and its smoke binary, which now exercises a sound, a picture and a pane in every format, prints ok.

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  • New Features

    • Added shared markup for sounds, images, panes, screen actions, links, prompts, variables, gauges, and status indicators.
    • Added MXP and Pueblo output support with client capability handling and fallback behavior.
    • Expanded HTML rendering with policy-controlled tags and attributes.
    • Added serialization support for built-in markup elements.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved nested ANSI and HTML styling so delegated markup remains correctly positioned.
    • Point-based markup no longer affects plain text, width, equality, or hashing.
    • Added BBCode image and ANSI clear-screen output.

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A game says a sound, a picture or a pane once, and each format writes it
its own way or stands something in for it: MXP <SOUND>, Pueblo
<img xch_sound>, HTML <audio>, a terminal nothing; a picture falls back to
its description or address; a pane keeps its text in the main window.

The types are core's (SoundMarkup, ImageMarkup, PaneMarkup, ...) with
MarkupText factories and built-in codecs. The format packages supply the
emitters: WithHtml for a browser, WithAnsi for a terminal's clear and
BBCode's [img], and two new packages, MarkupString.Mxp (held to the
client's <SUPPORT> answer) and MarkupString.Pueblo (names and attributes
from the Pueblo client's source).

Points (IPointMarkup) ride on a carrier that is not text: ToPlainText,
ToString and equality leave it out, and a format with no emitter for a
point writes nothing, not even the styling around it.

The Ansi set emitters now keep foreign layers nested inside the styling
inside it, so a picture inside a command link stays a link.

The changelog's 2.2.0 entries move under their own heading.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ate against it

2.2.0 is on nuget.org, but its public API was still listed as unshipped and
package validation still diffed against 2.1.0.

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Shared markup vocabulary

Layer / File(s) Summary
Markup contracts, factories, and codecs
MarkupString/Elements/*, MarkupString/MarkupText.Elements.cs, MarkupString/Elements/ElementCodecs.cs, MarkupString/MarkupTextSerializer.cs
Adds shared sound, image, pane, screen, status, and point markup. Adds factories, validation, built-in codecs, serialization, and reserved codec-kind checks.
Point handling and nested rendering
MarkupString/MarkupText.cs, MarkupString/MarkupTextRenderer.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/*, MarkupString.Tests/Ansi/*, MarkupString.Tests/Snapshots/*
Excludes point carriers from plain-text operations and renders them separately. ANSI and HTML nesting now keeps delegated markup inside owned styling where applicable.
HTML, MXP, and Pueblo emitters
MarkupString.Html/*, MarkupString.Mxp/*, MarkupString.Pueblo/*, MarkupString/PublicAPI.Shipped.txt
Adds shared-vocabulary emitters and registration for HTML, MXP, and Pueblo. Adds HTML policy handling, MXP capability filtering, Pueblo output, and MXP secure-line APIs.
Integration, tests, and documentation
MarkupString.Tests/*, MarkupString.AotSmoke/*, README.md, docs/*, CHANGELOG.md, .github/workflows/ci.yml
Adds cross-format tests, AOT coverage, package wiring, documentation, release guidance, package baselines, and changelog entries for the new formats and behavior.

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- Around line 81-83: Update the coordinated-release and AOT/versioning
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- Line 62: Update the WriteInner/Fold/WriteWrapped flow around FirstClaimed so
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relevant MarkupText.Wrap, Normalise, and deserialization validation flow so
RenderRun cannot receive multiple points or invalid carriers, preserving
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…e HTML policy

- A layer between two folded layers keeps its place: [bold, tag, red] is a bold
  inside a tag inside a red in HTML, Pueblo, MXP and BBCode, rather than one
  folded bold-red inside the tag. A terminal keeps the flat shape it had, where a
  style is state and the sequence is written once around the run.
- WithHtml(policy) now holds the shared vocabulary's own elements to the policy
  too. A refused element leaves what a format that cannot express it leaves:
  nothing for a point, the text for the rest, so a refused picture keeps its
  description.
- A point marks its carrier and nothing else. Wrap refuses a point over other
  text, which would have swallowed it, and Normalise drops a point that a cover
  puts out of place rather than losing the text under it. The renderer writes
  every point a run carries, once per carrier.
- MarkupRegistry.With(IMarkupCodec) refuses the kinds core writes itself, which
  are read without consulting a registry.
- The docs said three packages; there are five.

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All five review findings are fixed in f2d6761, each answered in its thread, and the threads are resolved. Two needed a decision rather than the suggested patch:

  • Layer nesting is now kept for the formats that express nesting (HTML, Pueblo, MXP, BBCode) and deliberately not for the terminal, where a style is state rather than nesting and the SGR sequence is diffed across runs.
  • A refused HTML element leaves what a format that cannot express it leaves: nothing for a point, the text for everything else. A refused picture therefore keeps its description, which treating img as a plain void tag would have dropped.

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The HTML fallback behavior matches the existing review guidance for refused shared-vocabulary elements. The terminal behavior keeps ANSI styling as state transitions rather than structural nesting.


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AnsiStyle.Clear discards the styling around it. With a layer from another
package between two stretches of styling, the outer stretch was still written
around the delegated output, so the colour came back.

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