WAwalterbell·Oct 19, 2025Submission
Patat: Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc
9 points · Open discussionjaspervdj
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Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc
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11 sourcesPhenomenal - I've been using patat for this:
https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat
This has in line snippet execution, critical for how I present - so lets switch to this.
In Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the TerminalTerminal-based presentations using Pandoc
4 points · Open discussionI've been using https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat previously, but this looks like a worthy alternative. Nice work, I'll have try this out :)
In Pysentation: CLI for displaying Python presentations> I recently tried to get into Haskell, while also looking for relevant projects written in it on Github and couldn't find anything "interesting" (this may vary from person to person, obviously).
Let me try covering interesting for many people (hopefully including you!):
Start: https://github.com/topics/haskell
https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest
https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat
https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell
https://github.com/fosskers/aura
https://github.com/HuwCampbell/grenade
https://github.com/Haskell-Things/ImplicitCAD
https://github.com/lettier/gifcurry - GIF editor
https://github.com/2mol/pboy - pdf management utility
https://github.com/ChrisPenner/rasa - Extremely modular text editor built in Haskell
https://github.com/samtay/tetris -
Read the rest
terminal interface for Tetris
https://github.com/mattgreen/hython - Haskell-powered Python 3 interpreter
https://github.com/lettier/movie-monad - A free and simple to use video player made with Haskell.
https://github.com/dbousamra/hnes - NES Emulator written in Haskell
Patat (https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat) supports any Pandoc input including Markdown, plus it allows embedding snippets with execution result and even images in supported terminals.
In Slides: Terminal based Markdown presentation toolThere is also patat (https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat) that does a similar thing.
It does not have effects, but it can do colors and has many other features one would expect from a presentation tool. It has also been around for a while, it is rather stable and written in Haskell. Many Linux distributions already have it in their repositories (https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat#installation).
Worth trying out as well!
In A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effectsElinks was still quite active[1] until 2 years ago any contributions were stopped.
For spreadsheets there is sc-im. For presentations in terminal there are termimad (in Rust)[3], mdp[4], and patat[5]. For files management vifm[6] is the best one, if you got used to Vim already.
And one more important thing - don't forget to setup true colors[7] in your terminal.
[1] https://repo.or.cz/elinks.git/shortlog
[2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
[3] https://github.com/Canop/termimad
[4] https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
[5] https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat
[6] https://github.com/vifm/vifm
[7] https://github.com/termstandard/colors/
In Without a GUI: How to Live Entirely in a TerminalI've used https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat for the same purpose in the past. Nice to see there are more options.
In Doitlive, a tool for live presentations in the terminalI'd also like to share patat [0], a Pandoc-based presentation tool written in Haskell.
One of the nice things about patat using Pandoc is that the input file format can be any of the ones supported by Pandoc (e.g. rST, Org, LaTeX, etc).
[0]: https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat
In Show HN: Generate Google Slides from MarkdownShow HN: Patat – Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc
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