CATPOINT: A terminal-based slide presenter

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I quit using PowerPoint long ago because I got tired of managing giant
files and also dealing with templates, fonts, etc.  If I ever need to make
slides with images and pretty fonts, I use a LaTeX template.

But for day to day use, I use Catpoint.  Catpoint is a text-based slide
presenter that uses ncurses to present ordinary text files in a terminal
window.  So you just create a set of text files, name them so they are sorted
in the order that you want, and then execute catpoint with an argument
telling it which files to load (e.g., /home/user/slides/*.txt).  Catpoint
will then display the file in the terminal window. If you're presenting you
simply increase the font size in your terminal program to make the slides
easier to see.

I am not sure who created catpoint.  Here is a link to catpoint code hosted
by Lazaros Koromilas and Laslo Hunhold. You can get it via git or http...

git://git.2f30.org/catpoint.git
https://git.2f30.org/catpoint/files.html

Christoph Lohmann also has a git repo of catpoint code...

git clone git://r-36.net/catpoint
gopher://gopher.r-36.net/1/scm/catpoint/log.gph

Christoph also has a project called pointtools which makes creating content
for catpoint much easier...

git clone git://r-36.net/pointtools
gopher://gopher.r-36.net/1/scm/pointtools/log.gph

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