shlide #

a slide deck presentation tool written in pure bash

Features #

• All slides are plain-text files.
• Vim like navigation.
• Text color and style formatting.
• Pure bash.

Requirements #

• bash 4+

Usage #

Create a directory for your slides. Name each slide starting with a number and a hyphen, like so:

$ mkdir deck
$ touch deck/1-first-slide.txt
$ touch deck/2-another.txt

# so on

Note: Make sure to prefix the first 9 slides with a 0 (01-foo.txt, 02-bar.txt ...), if you have more than 10 slides.

Finally, run:

$ shlide deck/

Controls #

• Next slide: j, n, ;, space, enter
• Previous slide: k, p, ,, backspace
• Jump to first slide: 0
• Jump to last slide: G
• Reload: r
• Quit: q

Formatting #

Slide content can be formatted like so:

Welcome to ${GRN}shlide${RST}. ${STR}Here${RST} are a few bullet points:

- first point
- second point
    * ${ITA}sub point${RST}
    * ${BLD}another${RST} sub point

Note: Make sure to ${RST} (reset) at the end.

A full list of formatting options are below:

Colors #

Key	Effect
BLK	black
RED	red
GRN	green
YLW	yellow
BLU	blue
PUR	purple
CYN	cyan
RST	reset

Styles #

Key	Effect
BLD	bold
DIM	dim
ITA	italics
UND	underline
FLS	flashing
REV	reverse
INV	invert
STR	strikethrough