Slide - a minimal presentation tool

December 28, 2017 · View on GitHub

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A pure and simple presentation tool for Linux/MacOS/Windows inspired by Takahashi method. With simple markup language you can easily make modern-looking text slides. The main idea of such a technique is to visualize speech keynote with no distracting details. Slides with only a few words shown can easily keep the audience aware of the speaker's point.

Syntax

General

  • Each paragraph is a slide. Blank lines separate slides
  • Text is rendered using the largest possible font size to fit in the slide bounds
  • Single-line text is centered, otherwise it's left-aligned
  • Dot at the beginning of a line is ignored. It's helpful to "escape" blank lines or special symbols inside a slide

Text style

  • Text surrounded with * is rendered as bold (emphasized). Use * without a matching end marker to render a normal * sign

    TextText on slide
    * hello* hello
    *hello*hello
    * hello** hello*
    **hello****hello**
    *hello*hello
    *hello *hello
    ***hello*****hello**

  • Line starting with # is a header

  • Line starting with ␣␣ (two spaces) is rendered as code (monospace).

Images

  • Line starting with @ inserts an image from the URL (web, dropbox, local device storage)
  • Images may be scaled, e.g @http://example.com/bg.png 30%
  • Images may have certain gravity, e.g. @http://example.com/logo.png top

Download

See Github Releases.

Dependency instructions

# Install Cairo
$ sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
or
$ brew install cairo

Building

Debug

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Release

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
$ make

Other versions

Originally Slide was written for Android: https://github.com/trikita/slide

There is also a single-page HTML that can be edited to make a presentation: https://github.com/trikita/slide-html