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NAME¶
TPP - Text Presentation Program
SYNOPSIS¶
tpp <OPTIONS> <FILE>
DESCRIPTION¶
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.
OPTIONS¶
KEYS¶
- 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
WRITING PRESENTATIONS¶
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.
VIM SYNTAX FILE¶
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.
AUTHOR CONTACT¶
Tpp was written by Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> and Andreas Krennmair <ak@synflood.at>
April 2007 | tpp 1.3.1 |