How to overcome the problem of misformatted markdown rendering in terminal environments?

2025-08-22

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common problems

Terminals may display markdown elements such as tables, lists, etc. abnormally due to font and width limitations or special characters.

Adjusting terminal settings::
- Enable equal width fonts (e.g. Fira Code)
- set upexport TERM=xterm-256color
- pass (a bill or inspection etc)stty rows 50 cols 120Expanded display area
Spegel Exclusive Optimization::
- Activate in configuration filepure_textMode:
```
[rendering]
strip_markdown = true
```
- utilizationtextualof the alternate renderer:
```
spegel --renderer plain
```
post-processing::
- Piped out toglowand other advanced markdown renderers:
  spegel url --raw | glow -
- After redirecting to a file withbatView:
  spegel url > temp.md && bat -p temp.md

(of a computer) runspegel --check-envTerminal compatibility can be detected and suggestions for corrections can be given.