Today, I'm going to share my view on those command line presentation tools that I tried.
Good and bad with command line presentation tools.
- Cannot never win any design award.
- fonts might be too small.
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- fonts might be too small.
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mdp - Markdown Presentation
- uses single markdown text file.
- can be converted to HTML and PDF (with additional tools).
tpp - Text Presentation Program
- uses own formatting (instead of markdown).
- colorful
vimdeck - VIM as a presentation tool
- uses makrdown + ruby + SyntaxRange
- supports H1/H2/Images (to ascii), and fenced code blocks.
- supports highlighting syntax.
vtmc - Video Terminal Master of Ceremonies
- uses node.js (javascript) + multiple text files (stored at a folder).
- uses custom formatting.
- same author as https://github.com/jclulow/terminal-heatmap
tkn - Terminal Keynote
- uses ruby and png files.
- supports code, center, block, image, section.
- can be converted to PDF.
tiptip - Terminal Plain-text Presentations
- uses CoffeeScript.
patat - Presentation Atop The ANSI Terminal
- uses pandoc (markdown/LaTeX) to parse the slides.
- largely based upon MDP and VTMC
- support different running options.
- support YAML configuration (at 2 places).
lookatme - LookAtMe
- uses markdown notation.
- supports live code, images,
- live terminal.
- options for different types of rendering.
Links:
- mdp - https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
- tpp - https://synflood.at/tpp.html
- vimdeck - https://github.com/tybenz/vimdeck
- vtmc - https://github.com/jclulow/vtmc
- vtmc_box - https://github.com/justin2004/vtmc_box
- tkn - https://github.com/fxn/tkn
- tiptip - https://github.com/felixrabe-attic/mcrio--tiptip
- patat - https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat
- lookatme - https://github.com/d0c-s4vage/lookatme