new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python3
  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  
  # splashtool – A simple tool for creating SYSLINUX splashes without fuss
  # 
  # Copyright © 2013  Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
  # 
  # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  # (at your option) any later version.
  # 
  # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  # GNU General Public License for more details.
  # 
  # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  
  
  timeout = 0
  title = ''
  background = 'splash.png'
  font = '/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/default8x16.psfu.gz'
  helptext = ''
  labels = ''
  width = 60
  margin = 3
  rows = 12
  vshift = 0
  timeoutrow = 18
  tabmsgrow = 18
  helpmsgrow = 22
  helpmsgendrow = 29
  colour_border = '#ff808080#00000000'
  colour_title = '#ffffffff#00000000'
  colour_sel = '#ff808080#ffd0a290'
  colour_unsel = '#ffffffff#00000000'
  colour_help = '#ffffffff#00000000'
  colour_timeout_msg = '#ffffff00#00000000'
  colour_timeout = '#ffffff00#00000000'
  colour_tabmsg = '#ffffff00#00000000'
  
  
  while True:
      try:
          line = input()
          
      except:
          break
  
  
  border = colour_border
  
  labels = (labels + '\n' * rows).split('\n')[:rows]
  labels = [(' ' + x + ' ' * width)[:width - 2] + '\033\033' for x in labels]
  labels = ['\033' + (colour_sel if x is labels[0] else colour_unsel) + '\033' + x for x in labels]
  
  title = '\033' + colour_title + '\033' + ' ' * ((width - len(title)) // 2) + title + ' ' * width + '\033\033'
  
  helpmsgendrow -= vshift
  helptext = (helptext + '\n' * (helpmsgendrow - helpmsgrow)).split('\n')[: helpmsgendrow - helpmsgrow + 1]
  helptext = ['\033' + colour_help + '\033' + (x + ' ' * 86)[:86] + '\033\033' for x in helptext]
  helptext = '\n'.join(helptext)
  
  text = '\n' * vshift + ' ' * margin + '\033' + border + '\033┌' + '─' * width + '┐\033\033\n'
  text += ' ' * margin + '\033' + border + '\033│\033\033' + title + '\033' + border + '\033│\033\033\n'
  text += ' ' * margin + '\033' + border + '\033├' + '─' * width + '┤\033\033\n'
  for label in labels:
      text += ' ' * margin + '\033' + border + '\033│\033\033' + label + '\033' + border + '\033│\033\033\n'
  text += ' ' * margin + '\033' + border + '\033└' + '─' * width + '┘\033\033\n'
  
  more = []
  
  if timeout > 0:
      timeoutmsg = 'Automatic boot in %i seconds' % (timeout // 10)
      timeoutmsg = (86 - len(timeoutmsg)) // 2
      timeoutmsg = ' ' * timeoutmsg + '\033%s\033Automatic boot in \033%s\033%i\033%s\033 seconds...\033\033'
      timeoutmsg %= (colour_timeout_msg, colour_timeout, timeout // 10, colour_timeout_msg)
      more.append((timeoutrow * 10 + 0, timeoutmsg))
  tabmsg = 'Press [Tab] to edit options'
  tabmsg = ' ' * ((86 - len(tabmsg)) // 2) + tabmsg
  more.append((tabmsgrow * 10 + 1, '\033%s\033%s\033\033' % (colour_tabmsg, tabmsg)))
  more.append((helpmsgrow * 10 + 2, helptext))
  
  more = [(x[0] // 10, x[1]) for x in sorted(more, key = lambda x : x[0])]
  line = len(text.split('\n'))
  
  for seg in more:
      if (line <= seg[0]):
          text += '\n' * (seg[0] - line) + seg[1] + '\n'
          line = seg[0] + len(seg[1].split('\n'))
  
  text = background + '\n' + font + '\n' + '\n'.join((text + '\n' * 30).split('\n')[:30])
  
  print(text, end = '')
  
subject: add prototype for output of the parser