Pixie

Pixie is a C# library for beautiful and portable console output formatting/typesetting.

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Using Pixie with Loyc

Pixie.Loyc is an optional integration package for applications that already depend on Loyc libraries such as EC# or LeMP.

Install it only when you need to translate Loyc diagnostics into Pixie output:

dotnet add package Pixie.Loyc

What it gives you

The main entry point is PixieMessageSink, which implements Loyc’s IMessageSink and forwards messages into a Pixie ILog.

That means Loyc diagnostics can use the same rendering pipeline as the rest of your CLI output, including:

• consistent severities,
• compiler-style headers,
• source snippets,
• wrapping and terminal degradation.

Minimal setup

using Pixie;
using Pixie.Loyc;
using Pixie.Terminal;
using Pixie.Transforms;

var log = TerminalLog.Acquire().WithDiagnostics("program");
var messageSink = new PixieMessageSink(log);

Once you have a PixieMessageSink, pass it anywhere Loyc expects an IMessageSink.

Working example

The repository example at Examples/LoycInterop/Program.cs shows the full flow:

1. Acquire a Pixie log.
2. Wrap it so entries render as diagnostics.
3. Create a PixieMessageSink.
4. Parse Loyc input and let Loyc report issues through that sink.

If you also need source document reuse across multiple inputs, look at SourceDocumentCache in the Pixie.Loyc package.