TPP(1)

📦 version 1.3.1, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 TPP(1) — like, the manual page for tpp, bestie 💖

okay so you found the man page for TPP, which literally stands for Text Presentation Program and honestly? it's giving main character energy in a terminal near you. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

TPP — Text Presentation Program.</purpose>

yeah that's it, that's the name, short and iconic 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tpp <OPTIONS> <FILE>

that's the whole vibe: you give it some options, you give it a file, it does the thing ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So tpp is short for text presentation program, and it's an ncurses-based presentation tool. fr fr.

You write your presentation with your favorite editor in a simple description format, and then you show it on any text terminal that is supported by ncurses — and when we say any, we mean it, bestie. we're talking from an old VT100 all the way to the Linux framebuffer to an xterm. glow-up for every terminal 🔥

It supports color, various output modes, sliding in text, command prompt, LaTeX conversion and more. not me being obsessed with a slideshow tool that runs in a terminal 😭✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — display help. when in doubt, ask for help, queen 👑
  • -l — output.tex input.tpp converts tpp slides into tex. yup, LaTeX girlies stay winning 📄✨
  • -x — allow usage of --exec. heads up though, this one unlocks the spicy stuff, so know what you're doing before you turn it on 💀
  • -v, --version — display version number. gotta know which era of tpp you're living in 🎀

🎀 KEYS 🎀

okay bestie, here's your keyboard lore, memorize it iykyk:

  • 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. bye bestie 👋
  • 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 🌈

so the tpp presentation format is made up of normal text lines and special commands. the special commands live inside lines that begin with -- followed by the command name. periodt.

wanna see the complete list of command names? go peek at /usr/share/doc/tpp/README.gz 📖
and for TPP presentation examples — including presentation slides that have been used in real-life presentations (!!) — check out /usr/share/doc/tpp/examples 🍓

🧚 VIM SYNTAX FILE 🧚

in /usr/share/doc/tpp/contrib you'll find a syntax file for the vim editor 👑 vim girlies, this one's for you.

the installation instructions are in /usr/share/doc/tpp/README.gz — go read it, it's literally right there 💜

💜 AUTHOR CONTACT 💜

Tpp was written by Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> and Andreas Krennmair <ak@synflood.at> 🫶 absolute legends, no cap.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was tpp version 1.3.1, dated April 2007 — yeah, a classic, and it still ate. mwah, go make some terminal slides 💖✨🎀

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