In Ink, <Transform> IS an ink-text host node (Transform.tsx renders
<ink-text internal_transform={fn}>), and the reconciler sets isInsideText
for ink-text. So bare-string and <Newline> children of a standalone
<Transform> render inline within that ink-text, with the transform applied
per line by the Output, and a nested <Text> child is squashed inline too.
The canonical README pattern `<Transform transform={fn}>Hello World</Transform>`
(no inner <Text>) works standalone.
vue-tui's transform host was a non-text yoga carrier: its direct text-leaf
children hit the paint no-op leaf branch and were silently dropped, a
<Newline> inside it rendered as a standalone "text" node (name-based
isInsideText saw no <Text> ancestor), and the SR squash ignored bare
text-leaf children. So `<Transform>ab</Transform>` rendered nothing and
`<Transform>a<Newline/>b</Transform>` applied the transform to empty lines.
Fix (treat a standalone <Transform> as a text context, matching Ink):
- paint.ts: when a transform has no yoga-carrying child, squash its inline
children to a string and write it like a text node, pushing the transform
as a per-line Output transformer (applied at paint, never at squash —
matching Ink). Transforms wrapping a yoga child keep the recursion path.
- yoga.ts: bind a text-style measure func on a standalone transform (its
squashed children, WITHOUT its own fn — matching Ink measureTextNode), and
toggle it off/on as yoga children are inserted/removed.
- Newline.ts / Text.ts: treat a <Transform> ancestor as a text context, so a
<Newline>/<Text> directly inside a transform emits inline virtual-text.
- node-ops.ts: allow bare text-leaf children of a transform (text-context
check) and mark a standalone transform dirty on inline child change; the
<Box>-in-<Text> guard still excludes transform (Ink renders Box-in-Transform
empty, no throw).
- screen-reader.ts: include bare text-leaf/virtual-text children of a
transform in SR output (Ink squashTextNodes includes #text).
All transform-in-text (G21/G32/G52), <Transform><Text>…</Text></Transform>,
nested transforms, plain <Text>/<Newline>, and Box-in-Transform cases verified
against Ink 7.0.4. Expected outputs (columns=40) confirmed by running the Ink
reference: `<Transform transform={s=>`<${s}>`}>ab</Transform>` + after →
"<ab>\nafter"; `<Transform>a<Newline/>b</Transform>` → "<a>\n<b>" (per-line);
SR → "ab" / "a\nb".
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Yunfei He
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