presenterm

presenterm lets you create presentations in markdown format and render them in your terminal.

This is how the demo presentation looks like:

Documentation

Visit the documentation to get started.

Features

• Define your presentation in a single markdown file.
• Images and animated gifs on terminals like kitty, iterm2, and wezterm.
• Customized themes including colors, margins, layout (left/center aligned content), footer for every slide, etc.
• Code highlighting for a wide list of programming languages.
• Selective/dynamic code highlighting that only highlights portions of code at a time.
• Column layouts.
• LaTeX and typst formula rendering.
• Introduction slide that displays the presentation title and your name.
• Slide titles.
• Shell code execution.
• Export presentations to PDF.
• Pause portions of your slides.
• Custom key bindings.
• Automatically reload your presentation every time it changes for a fast development loop.

See the introduction page to learn more.

Acknowledgements

This tool is heavily inspired by:

• slides
• lookatme
• sli.dev

Support for code highlighting on many languages is thanks to bat, which contains a custom set of syntaxes that extend syntect's default set of supported languages. Run presenterm --acknowledgements to get a full list of all the licenses for the binary files being pulled in.