JRSL: A terminal presentation program

[ralsina]

This program is sort of a joke, last year I was going to give a talk called “Doing strange things for normal people” and promised I would do it using a computer built for the event and using presentation software specially created for the event.

However … it works!

JRSL shows presentations in a terminal. It supports:

• Markdown
• Code highlights
• images if your terminal is nice

Here’s an example:

Of course it’s a single binary and if needed it could embed the presentation inside it so the presentation is just one binary blob!

You can find it in let’s say alpha state at GitHub - ralsina/jrsl: A markdown-based terminal presentation software

[ralsina]

I have released version 0.2.0 of JRSL, a presentation tool that works in your terminal. Highlights:

• Now it uses a reasonable file format (markdown with interlaced metadata)
• Supports images better, and you can tell it where the image goes
• Paired with latest markterm it should support tables

[ralsina]

And now it is feature complete (meaning: LGTM) and it has a site:

JRSL - Terminal-based Presentations

I may provide some static binaries or a install script at some point in the future but not soon.

[omarluq]

Are you using kitty image protocols?

[ralsina]

If you pass --kitty yes (it’s a bit flaky)

And the text-images are not great but that can be improved.