Features

  • Default Static Box Zoning — Unicode-boxed panels when the console is UTF-8 (or when output is piped); ASCII +|- fallback on legacy Windows OEM code pages. Opt out/in with PROHELP_ASCII=1 / PROHELP_UNICODE=1.

  • Opt-in TUI Viewport — full-screen browser (?:i or ?:interactive) with filter search and clipboard copy.

  • 1-Line Integration API — first-pass argument filtering into standard main entries.

  • Hierarchical Globbing ()* — subtree extraction for scripts and agents (e.g. tar ?:text operations *).

  • Multilingual Localization — OS locale auto-detection with overrides (?:de, ?:es,i).

  • Sliding-scale Line Budgets — strict screen boundaries (20-line Level 0 menu budget).

  • Document schemas — author progressive help as help.md / help.adoc / help.cmk with frontmatter, or keep canonical help.sdl.

  • content-ref bodies — pull section text from AsciiDoc, Markdown, or CentrMark (.cmk) sources.

  • Essential metadata notices — warn only when homepage / docs / issues are empty; nudge feature requests when a PATH command has no prohelp schema.