SxPres: minimalistic presentations

The slide presentation programs are just to stupid!

Lets fix-it!

What is it?

Simplex Presentation — SxPres is a rich builder of presentations.

SxPres was built as an compiled way of making presentations. It obeys the KISS phylosophy.

Inspirations

Inspired by roff, nroff and groff.

Goal

To be a web target mininalistic way of presenting talks, classes or lessons with no fuss slideshow.

Use

The use of SxPres is based on a markdown syntax combined with a reduced set of navigation controls.

Writing a presentation

Open a example.stv text file and start typing. It’s self explanatory:

.heading
SxPres
.subheading
Let's learn about it!
.text
Press 'J'
---
.text
This is a text in a slide.
.list 
And this is a firtst item of a list.
This is the second.
Etc.
.heading
Texts and lists:
# Even that the .heading appears last, will be rendered on the top of the slide.
---
# This is a comment and will be ingored.
# Those three dashes (---) starts a new slide.
.ordlist 
Lists can be ordered, producing numbered items.
In this case, three!
Next slide, an image and then a video...
---
.image
example.jpg
One caption to this image:
Line breaks are permitted!
# The image above should be in the same directory or be
# pointed with full path like:
# /your/path/example.jpg
---
.video
example.mp4
# The .video tag will insert the example.mp4 video on the same directory.
---
.subheading 
Mermaid diagrams can be inserted also!
.mermaid
graph TD;
a(A) --> b(B);
c(C) --> d(D);
a --> c;
b --> c;
---
.heading 
A title for the slide
.subheading 
A subtitle: let's make a table!
.table 
1st column | 2nd | 3rd 
2nd line | middle collumn | last
.text
The next slide is a blank one.
---
---
.image
example.jpg
.draft
# This slide contains an image but will not be rendered, since it's marked as draft.
.footer 
A foot note to be shown in all slides.
# Footer text can be inserted at any slide, even on draft ones.
---
# "Actually", configs can be passed at any time, like the logo below:
.logo
logo.png
.text
The end.

Then, run:

$ sxpres --input example.stv

A example.html file will appear. Open it with some browser. See the hosted version here.

Controls

Controls are keept simple and vim-like inspired.

t   :   Open and close the help pop-up.
j   :   Next slide.
k   :   Previous slide.
p   :   Printable mode. 
gg  :   Go to 1st slide.
G   :   Go to last slide.
m   :   Show round pointer.
x   :   Change pointer size..

In screen devices, swipe to go trhought slides.

Where is it?

In my GitHub page.

Documentation

See the rust style documentation here.