by Charlotte Koch -- cfkoch@edgebsd.org
pres is a stupid-simple slideshow presentation program thing written in Ruby and Curses. In order for it to suck even less it should be written in C, but at least this is written in non-sucky Ruby, using core and stdlib only.
The pres executable takes one argument, which is a path to a presentation
file. This is a plain text file of slides, where each slide is separated
with a line containing nothing but a form feed (i.e., "\n\f\n"). Cool text
editors let you enter a literal form feed by typing ^L. It is the
presentation author's responsibility to make sure that the slides are
properly formatted (max. 23 lines and 80 columns per slide). The 24th line
is the "status indicator" (see below).
The first line of each slide is "stood out" (from Curses jargon), so it's best to make that line the title of that particular slide. All other text is written as-is. There's also a small status indicator at the bottom of the display.
If you run pres without any arguments, it prints version information to
the standard output.
You navigate a slideshow with these key bindings. They're like less(1):
- l, n -- next slide
- h, p -- previous slide
- g -- first slide
- G -- last slide
- q -- quit
HOW TO OPEN A DOOR
Foobar Quux
January 1, 1999
^L
PRELIMINARIES
You need the following:
- A door.
- On a hinge.
- A doorknob.
I think you can figure it out from here.
^L
THANK YOU!
Questions?
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