The source code of the ./tools command that runs build steps is found in "build-tools/src/main.rs". There are two variables, release and force_color, which are set at the beginning of the script. They are used to set the color output and release mode flags for all invocations to cargo that the build script performs. But repeating each of these arguments each time cargo is called is verbose

I have no idea the feasibility of this, but I'm hoping that Microsoft has some open-sourced and compatible library that could be used to render the RTF. It'd be really grand.