GlowText

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GlowText is a lightweight text parsing and formatting utility for Hytale that converts human-readable markup into structured Message objects.

It provides a flexible, tag-based syntax for applying colors, styles, and links to text while preserving correct formatting state across nested and mixed tags.

GlowText is designed to be:

Predictable – formatting state is explicitly managed and restored

Composable – nested colors, styles, and links behave intuitively

Extensible – custom colors, default states, and syntax can be injected

Safe – unmatched or invalid tags degrade gracefully into raw text

Features

Named and hex colors: {blue}text{/blue} {#453}text{/#453}

Bold, italic, monospace styles (with shorthands): {bold}text{/bold} {m}text{/m}

Nested and mixed formatting: {red}{bold}red and bold{/red} just bold{/bold} no styling

Links: {link:https://example.com}click here{/link}

Custom color resolvers: Map arbitrary color names to hex values at parse time

Customizable: The style tag characters (start '{' and end '}'), colors, and default applied styles can be set per-parse.

Graceful fallback: Unknown or unmatched tags are emitted as plain text rather than failing