In addition to the prior art the author links in the README, there's also the suckless.org project ssg[0]. For something a little more graphically oriented, there's Tom MacWright's big[1] and the in-browser slide editor biggie[2], which both use Markdown.<p>1: <a href="https://github.com/jroimartin/ssg" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jroimartin/ssg</a><p>2: <a href="http://www.macwright.org/big/" rel="nofollow">http://www.macwright.org/big/</a><p>3: <a href="http://www.macwright.org/biggie/" rel="nofollow">http://www.macwright.org/biggie/</a>
This is great. I'd love to see something like this with terminal image support for iTerm and Terminology.<p>If I display images in slides it's only usually 1 image on it's own or occasionally with title text.<p>I guess if you could use an embedded background image shell commands, e.g. tybg for Terminology, in the Markdown (or other input text) you could make it work.<p>An alternative would be to use Pandoc to create a presentation and then use w3m to display it in the terminal but Patat would be neater.
As an other text based presentation tool I recommend Pinpoint, which also supports transitions or PDF export:<p><a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Pinpoint" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Pinpoint</a>
It's a neat project, and props on bringing it to fruition! But do you see there being a practical use case for this kind of presentation, or did you create this purely for the novelty and fun?
I like tpp (<a href="http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html</a>). Syntax is easy to learn. It can simulate shell interaction and you can shell out from within the presentation.<p>And it's been feature complete for a long time. I just tried viewing a short presentation I have at BayLISA nine years ago (<a href="https://gist.github.com/cwarden/1349583" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/cwarden/1349583</a>), and it looks fine.
Terminal-based presentations generally don't look quite presentable. I'd rather use suckless.org's sent. It's a very similar tool for graphical presentations, although it doesn't have quite as many features. It's quite good if you're a fan of the Takahashi Method, or the similar Lessig Method of presentation. Which I am.