Show HN: Patat – Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc

In addition to the prior art the author links in the README, there&#x27;s also the suckless.org project ssg[0]. For something a little more graphically oriented, there&#x27;s Tom MacWright&#x27;s big[1] and the in-browser slide editor biggie[2], which both use Markdown.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jroimartin&#x2F;ssg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jroimartin&#x2F;ssg</a><p>2: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macwright.org&#x2F;big&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macwright.org&#x2F;big&#x2F;</a><p>3: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macwright.org&#x2F;biggie&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macwright.org&#x2F;biggie&#x2F;</a>

This is great. I&#x27;d love to see something like this with terminal image support for iTerm and Terminology.<p>If I display images in slides it&#x27;s only usually 1 image on it&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&#x2F;action&#x2F;show&#x2F;Apps&#x2F;Pinpoint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&#x2F;action&#x2F;show&#x2F;Apps&#x2F;Pinpoint</a>

It&#x27;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?

Being a Dutchman the name alone made me upvote this.

I like tpp (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ngolde.de&#x2F;tpp.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ngolde.de&#x2F;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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;cwarden&#x2F;1349583" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;cwarden&#x2F;1349583</a>), and it looks fine.

If I load test&#x2F;03.md with it, the process consumes around 19MB. Is that expected and normal for displaying ansi text?

Terminal-based presentations generally don&#x27;t look quite presentable. I&#x27;d rather use suckless.org&#x27;s sent. It&#x27;s a very similar tool for graphical presentations, although it doesn&#x27;t have quite as many features. It&#x27;s quite good if you&#x27;re a fan of the Takahashi Method, or the similar Lessig Method of presentation. Which I am.