Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal • Hacker News Board

Re: Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

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Post by hknws2023saio » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 2:01 AM UTC

I love this, what a wonderful idea

Re: Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

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Post by jrm4 » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 2:36 AM UTC

bryanhogan wrote: post #6

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/

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.

Re: Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

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Post by mycall » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 2:47 AM UTC

Any chance of adding mermaid syntax for ANSI or ASCII charts?

Re: Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

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Post by pea-tear » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 3:04 AM UTC

mycall wrote: post #23

Any chance of adding mermaid syntax for ANSI or ASCII charts?

Mermaid is already supported natively, meaning the mermaid diagram output is rendered as actual images; no need for ascii diagrams https://mfontanini.github.io/presenterm/features/code/mermai...

Re: Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

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Post by naikrovek » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 3:07 AM UTC

mmastrac wrote: post #3

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/

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?

Re: Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

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Post by edoceo » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 3:28 AM UTC

naikrovek wrote: post #25

mmastrac wrote: post #3

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/

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?

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?

Re: Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

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Post by tombert » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 3:48 AM UTC

I'm giving a talk in June, and it might be fun to do it entirely in the terminal.

Historically, I've done the slides with Markdown and rendered them to Beamer with Pandoc, and that works well enough, though slightly awkward with transitions. I might get more nerd-cred if I live in the terminal.

I'll need to check this one out.