How do you create a grid layout of panes equally distributed from a script?

[brupelo]

Consider this script foo.cmd

set BD=d:\

wt -w %~n0 ^
nt --title="tab1" --startingDirectory=%BD% ; ^
sp --title="tab2" --startingDirectory=%BD% ; ^
sp --title="tab3" --startingDirectory=%BD% ; ^
sp --title="tab4" --startingDirectory=%BD% ; ^
sp --title="tab5" --startingDirectory=%BD% ; ^
sp --title="tab6" --startingDirectory=%BD% ;

When I run it from the terminal I'll get this:

There are few questions here:

1. You can see how a new tab called "Command Prompt" has been created, is there any way to prevent that?

2. I'd like to learn how to arrange my 6 panes in something like this:

In the above image I did that manually but I'd like to create this sort of arrangement from my script foo.cmd, so how can I modify my script to acomplish that?

Basically my goal is each pane is taking 1/6 of the total client area.

3. What's the rationale of wt sp --help, wt --help, ... , wt cmd --help creating a window rather than writing to stdout as usual?

4. Let's say on %BD% there is a virtualenv that i want to activate venv\Scripts\activate so then I can run few scripts python fancy_server, how can I modify my script to do that?

I wasn't sure where to ask these question... although reading the docs I'm still trying to figure out how you could achieve this one.

Maybe having a section

would be more convenient?

Thanks in advance!

Ps. Basically the idea here is migrating some old conemu scripts where i'd be able to spin up few microservices like this:

-cur_console:d:d:\microservices\local -cur_console:t:microservice1 cmd /k run_ms1.cmd

-cur_console:ns1T65H -cur_console:d:d:\microservices\local -cur_console:t:microservice2 cmd /k run_ms2.cmd

-cur_console:ns1T50V -cur_console:d:d:\microservices\local -cur_console:t:microservice3 cmd /k run_ms3.cmd

-cur_console:ns2T50V -cur_console:d:d:\microservices\local -cur_console:t:microservice4 cmd /k run_ms4.cmd

-cur_console:ns2T50H -cur_console:d:d:\microservices\local -cur_console:t:microservice5 cmd /k run_ms5.cmd

> -cur_console:ns4T50H -cur_console:d:d:\microservices\local -cur_console:t:microservice6 cmd /k run_ms6.cmd

where each run_ms.cmd would cd/pushd/popd into the microservice directory and call python, docker, whatever... I'd like to learn how to accomplish this (having this in a single standalone script would be great) using windows terminal