Elements

Even though it's possible to create custom elements Anathema aims to provide the necessary building blocks to represent almost any layout without the need to do so.

Default attributes

Elements that draw them selves (e.g text, span and border) support these default attributes:

foreground

Foreground colour

Valid values:

  • hex: #ffaabb
  • string: "green"

background

Background colour (see foreground for valid values)

bold

Valid values: true or false

italic

Valid values: true or false

display

Changes the behaviour of the rendering and layout step. show is default and renders the element. hide will not paint the element, but it will be part of the layout, exclude excludes it from layout as well, thus the element won't take up any space and be hidden.

Valid Values: show, hide or exclude

fill

Fill the unpainted space with a string.

Example:

border [width: 10, height: 5, fill: "+-"]
    text "Hello"

┌────────┐
│Hello-+-│
│+-+-+-+-│
│+-+-+-+-│
└────────┘

Default widgets

The following is a list of available widgets and their template tags: