Slide - a minimal presentation tool

A pure and simple presentation tool for Linux/MacOS/Windows inspired by Takahashi method. With simple markup language you can easily make modern-looking text slides. The main idea of such a technique is to visualize speech keynote with no distracting details. Slides with only a few words shown can easily keep the audience aware of the speaker's point.

Syntax

General

• Each paragraph is a slide. Blank lines separate slides
• Text is rendered using the largest possible font size to fit in the slide bounds
• Single-line text is centered, otherwise it's left-aligned
• Dot at the beginning of a line is ignored. It's helpful to "escape" blank lines or special symbols inside a slide

Text style

• Text surrounded with * is rendered as bold (emphasized). Use * without a matching end marker to render a normal * sign

  Text	Text on slide
  * hello	* hello
  *hello	*hello
  * hello*	* hello*
  **hello**	**hello**
  *hello*	hello
  *hello *	hello
  ***hello***	**hello**

• Line starting with # is a header

• Line starting with ␣␣ (two spaces) is rendered as code (monospace).

Images

• Line starting with @ inserts an image from the URL (web, dropbox, local device storage)
• Images may be scaled, e.g @http://example.com/bg.png 30%
• Images may have certain gravity, e.g. @http://example.com/logo.png top

Download

See Github Releases.

Dependency instructions

# Install Cairo
$ sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
or
$ brew install cairo

Building

Debug

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Release

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
$ make

Other versions

Originally Slide was written for Android: https://github.com/trikita/slide

There is also a single-page HTML that can be edited to make a presentation: https://github.com/trikita/slide-html