TPP - Text Presentation Program
tpp <OPTIONS> <FILE>
Tpp stands for text presentation program and is an ncurses-based presentation tool. The presentation can be written with your favorite editor in a simple description format and then shown on any text terminal that is supported by ncurses - ranging from an old VT100 to the Linux framebuffer to an xterm. It supports color, various output modes, sliding in text, command prompt, LaTeX conversion and more.
-h/--help display help -l output.tex input.tpp converts tpp slides into tex -x allow usage of "--exec" -v/--version display version number
space display next entry within page space, cursor-down, cursor-right display next page b, cursor-up, cursor-left display previous page q, Q quit tpp j, J jump directly to page s, S jump to the start page e, E jump to the last page c, C start command line
The tpp presentation formats consists of normal text lines and special commands. Special commands are contained in lines that begin with "--" and the command name. See /usr/share/doc/tpp/README.gz for complete list of command names, and /usr/share/doc/tpp/examples for TPP presentation examples, including presentation slides that have been in real-life presentations.
In /usr/share/doc/tpp/contrib you'll find a syntax file for the vim editor. See /usr/share/doc/tpp/README.gz for installation instructions.
Tpp was written by Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> and Andreas Krennmair <ak@synflood.at>
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