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TPP(1)                           User Commands                          TPP(1)

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
       -h/--help display help

       -l output.tex input.tpp converts tpp slides into tex

       -v/--version display version number

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 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 for installation instructions.

AUTHOR CONTACT
       Tpp was written by Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> and Andreas Krennmair
       <ak@synflood.at>

tpp 1.3.1                         April 2007                            TPP(1)