understate

Make stunning terminal presentations using markdown and some ncurses magic.

Overview

Understate renders regular markdown file into beautiful ascii art presentation that runs in your terminal.

Highlights:

• A curses console application. No GUI whatsoever.
• Uses standard markdown syntax. No learning curve.
• Syntax highlighting for almost any programming language using Pygments.
• Lightweight and cross platform.
• Cool slide transitions (coming in version 0.3)

Install

The easiest way is to use pip (or pip2 if your default is python3):

$ pip install understate 

Otherwise, just use:

$ sudo make install

Usage

$ understate filename.md

Compatibility

Understate requires python 2.7 and was tested in the following terminals:

• iTerm
• Mac Terminal
• rxvt

Roadmap

• version 0.1 - Basic project structure
• version 0.2 - Limited Markdown Support, Curses Renderer, Forward Navigation
• version 0.3 - Config File, More Markdown Elements, Simple Transition Effect
• version 0.4 - Slide Navigation, Status Bar, PIP integration
• version 0.5 - More Transition Options and Effects