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/

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/

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!

Alternative https://maaslalani.com/slides/

Phenomenal - I've been using patat for this:

https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat

This has in line snippet execution, critical for how I present - so lets switch to this.

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.

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With this, I'm going to get the executives living in the shell as much as I do

I wonder what the first incarnation of single-page markdown files for slides has been. The earliest I know of is `tslide` by Dominic Tarr, first published in 2012: https://github.com/tslide/tslide

Ahh very cool. Guess I can say goodbye to Power Point/Keynote/etc.

Very cool! I see the comments about Kitty. Any other terminals well supported?

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

I wonder how are the large fonts rendered. Are they sixel images or what?

I love this, what a wonderful idea

this looks amazing, goodbye google docs

This looks just so so good. Perfect for my usecase (making presentations for our lab meetings)

Gonna try and convert a few of my old ones to presenterm. I'll let you know how it goes.

very cool +1 for terminal slides

brb re-creating pitch deck with presenterm to take presenterm from OSS to closed/limited/business source licensed software (ie, hashicorp strategy) then IPO.

Then rug pull the stonk. Leave retail holding the bag, go on permanent leave, get a golden parachute, then some cookie cutter MBA scumbag takes over and ruins it further. Subsequently gets sold to big tech for pennies, and IP gets shelved.

In the meanwhile, FOSS community forks presenterm and a divergence occurs.

The rinse and repeat :). The circle of scamming.

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Turning the terminal into a worse web browser is such a silly decision. I really wish we had better environments for this stuff. Something like MatLab. I suppose achieving such a thing on the ubiquity of the UNIX text streams model would be immensely difficult.