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Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

231 points by pea-tear 17 hours ago | 36 comments

mmastrac 16 hours ago

I was curious how the larger fonts worked in Kitty -- here's the reference for the protocol:

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/text-sizing-protocol/

wkat4242 6 hours ago

Even the old VT220 had large fonts. They were just not used by most applications

kelvie 14 hours ago

Thanks, I was also wondering! I wonder what it would take (politically) to get Konsole to support this (kind of afraid to just file the bug and find out!)

porridgeraisin 14 hours ago

VTE based terminals can't support this AFAIK. Kitty draws itself with OpenGL and so supports these things. Iterm2 is also a similar story afaik (and Wezterm and ....)

naikrovek 12 hours ago

Xterm does this via DEC protocol commands. Well, it does this by specifying double-height, double width, or both. Why does Kitty have to do things its own way yet again?

edoceo 11 hours ago

Maybe cause TTY things are crazy! That mechanism of the computer world is so full of arcane/legacy/defacto "standards"

But how to overhaul? WaylandTYU?

bryanhogan 15 hours ago

What is the benfit of doing this in the terminal over tools such as Slidev or Marp which also allow you to make slides based on Markdown?

- Slidev: https://sli.dev/

- Marp: https://marp.app/

WD-42 9 hours ago

I used Presenterm for a work presentation recently. Being able to seamlessly transition from slides to example code in Vim is really, really nice. No need to jungle multiple windows, just terminal tabs or even ctrl+z/fg. Plus it looks really cool.

lloeki 5 hours ago

The other day I had to conjure a presentation in short order.

I had a few code examples to massage out of a codebase, so I fired up vim to make them simpler/clearer before I'd put them in Keynote.

Then I started taking a few notes in a scratch buffer. After a few moments I began to dread having to move that content over and format in the UI and all.

... And then it dawned on me that I could just use vim itself as the presentation tool!

- one tab per slide, one file per tab

- gt/gT (:tabnext :tabprev) to move through

- ,z (junegunn/goyo :Goyo) for a "hudless" display

- splits and :terminal on live demo time

- ,b (junegunn/fzf.vim :Buffers) to jump to any "slide" on question time (just name files appropriately)

- prepare the whole thing and save session with :mksession

closewith 6 hours ago

I wonder what the audience thought - apart from the cool factor.

fgarit 15 hours ago

Lots of people want to demo things on the terminal, having your slides in the terminal as well makes things seamless. Also some people just like using terminals for all things.

okonomiyaki3000 9 hours ago

I've used both of these a lot, Marp being really easy to get started with and Slidev being a little more complex but well worth the (minor) effort. To me, presenterm doesn't appear to offer any compelling features compared with these.

andatki 1 hour ago

I’ve used Marp a lot and it’s great. Column layouts and code highlighting are two features Presenterm offers that I don’t think are available in Marp.

jrm4 12 hours ago

Are either of these related to s5? What's wild is that I've been using zim-wiki -> html -> s5 slides for years, and still do, and I've completely forgotten "how s5 works?" It's just so easy to do things that way over markdown.

phrotoma 1 hour ago

I've been creating slides with markdown and revealjs for my day job as an instructor for several years. I've also used obsidian and quarto for markdown->slide creation for a handful of meetups / conferences. This month I tried writing a kubecon talk using presenterm and had to throw in the towl after a couple hours of struggling.

It's super cool and I want to love it, but I find it too fiddly to get the layout the way I want it. For me it might be easier to just page through a plain text file of ascii art style diagrams or something.

I've always been just absolutely dog shit at design stuff. I can't center a div to save my life and I don't understand columns. I need it to be absolutely idiot proof because I'm an absolute idiot when it comes to these things.

I guess this is my attempt at encouragement for folks to keep working on these tools because I love the aesthetic but I just can't grok the interface. I will continue to watch this project with interest!

campbel 15 hours ago

Alternative https://maaslalani.com/slides/