Make stunning terminal presentations using markdown and some ncurses magic.
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)
The easiest way is to use pip (or pip2 if your default is python3):
$ pip install understate
Otherwise, just use:
$ sudo make install
$ understate filename.md
Understate requires python 2.7 and was tested in the following terminals:
- iTerm
- Mac Terminal
- rxvt
- 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