Even the old VT220 had large fonts. They were just not used by most applications
kelvie 13 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 13 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 11 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?
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 14 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 45 minutes 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.
riffic 15 hours ago [-]
marp is rad! kill powerpoint forever by writing markdown slides.
phrotoma 35 minutes 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!
This has in line snippet execution, critical for how I present - so lets switch to this.
tombert 11 hours ago [-]
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.
10 hours ago [-]
bravetraveler 4 hours ago [-]
With this, I'm going to get the executives living in the shell as much as I do
yoshuaw 13 hours ago [-]
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
I wonder how are the large fonts rendered. Are they sixel images or what?
pea-tear 15 hours ago [-]
See the sibling comment. This is a new protocol that the kitty maintainer created and is supported as of kitty 0.40.0, which was just released yesterday. This makes presentations look much more presentation-like now!
hknws2023saio 12 hours ago [-]
I love this, what a wonderful idea
banku_brougham 15 hours ago [-]
this looks amazing, goodbye google docs
porridgeraisin 13 hours ago [-]
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.
fitsumbelay 15 hours ago [-]
very cool
+1 for terminal slides
xyst 14 hours ago [-]
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.
fdafds 14 hours ago [-]
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James_K 14 hours ago [-]
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.
Rendered at 14:21:36 GMT+0000 (UTC) with Wasmer Edge.
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/text-sizing-protocol/
But how to overhaul? WaylandTYU?
- Slidev: https://sli.dev/
- Marp: https://marp.app/
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
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!
https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat
This has in line snippet execution, critical for how I present - so lets switch to this.
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.
Gonna try and convert a few of my old ones to presenterm. I'll let you know how it goes.
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.