TerminalPoint lets you create beautifully minimalist slides presentations for display in a terminal, with less -r. The configuration language is a simple Ruby DSL.

Usage

./terminalpoint presentation.tpt | less -r
./terminalpoint --config
./terminalpoint --colors
./terminalpoint --transitions

Then just use normal less hotkeys to page through the presentation:

• PgDown or Space advances
• PgUp goes back a slide
• g goes to the beginning
• G goes to the end

Requirements

Ruby

Examples

slide
	title "Learn to use TerminalPoint"
	bullet "It's easier than you think!"
	bullet "Simple markdown works: `backticks`, **bold**, *italic*, _underlined_, and __also bold__"
	bullet "Very long lines are automatically wrapped."

See the examples directory for more detailed examples of layout, styles, in-line diagrams, and tables.

Command reference

• slide begins a new slide
• title "Text" adds a title entry to a slide
• bullet "Text" adds a bullet entry to a slide
• build pauses display of the current slide. Hit PgDown or Space to advance.
• pre "Text" displays an inline string or diagram, one line or several. Use it with a Ruby here document:

pre <<-'EOF'
 /----------------\
 | draw pictures! |
 \----------------/
EOF

• center pre "Text" displays an inline string or diagram, centered horizontally.
• table [ [ "a", "b" ], [ "c", "d" ] ] adds a table to the current slide. It's OK to declare your rows across several lines of the .tpt file.
• config "key", value alters a configuration value, for layout and styling.
• color "key", value adds a new custom color to the COLOR array, to be used by fmt. The key can be any name (no spaces), and the value is a space-separated list of existing style names or six-digit hex colors. For example: color "pink", "#ff8899".
• fmt "style", "text" applies styles to a string of text. Each style is a key from the COLOR array (as listed by ./terminalpoint --colors) or a six-digit hex color. Multiple styles are allowed, separated by spaces. This can be used anywhere a text string is expected, or interpolated into a text string. For example, bullet "My favorite gourd is a #{fmt 'orange', 'pumpkin'}."