There's this nifty little program called tpp for the Linux terminal, which turns a simple text file (with minimal syntax) into a full scale powerpoint-style presentation.
Make a new slide with --newpage texthere. Make a header with --heading texthere. Make blocks of text appear using --beginoutput and --endoutput.
I made a tiny script for commands with urxvt so that the font is bigger and prettier, using the Gentoo Wiki:
urxvt -name Terminal -fn "xft:Droid Sans:pixelsize=20" -fade 20 -depth 32 +sb -fg white -bg rgba:2000/2000/2000/dddd
And then I run tpp filename and tah dah, I have a better Powerpoint than anything the Powerpoint program could ever offer.
Now to work on getting an external monitor to display my text!
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Also, the original version of my script above uses urxvtc instead, because if you stuff "urxvtd &" into your fluxbox startup file, and use the urxvtc command instead, you can get a daemon/client interaction that saves time and memory.
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