A quick and dirty spritz-style speed-reading tool for colourised terminals. This might even work for Windows in the CMD prompt, if you're a masochist?
This also has very rudimentary support for Wikipedia, fetching and displaying wikipages if given the exact page name and a prefix "wikipedia:" instead of a filename.
By Cathal Garvey, Copyright October 2015, released GNU AGPL, inclusive of the included (terrible) spritzlib back-end.
# Print bold text with yellow pivot
buckfast ReadMe.md --bold --pivot-colour=yellow
# Print white text, white pivot, magenta background
buckfast ReadMe.md --pivot-colour=white --background-colour=magenta
# Red pivot, black text, white background, bold text, 800 words per minute.
buckfast --pivot-colour=red --background-colour=white --plain-colour=black --bold --wpm 800 ReadMe.md
# The above, but with shortcodes
buckfast -p red -P black -b white -w 800 --bold ReadMe.md
Suggestion: Find your favourite reading style, then make an alias of it in your .bashrc file.
# Print the wikipedia article for "Car":
buckfast --wpm 800 wikipedia:Car
# The wikipedia page for "Synthetic Biology":
buckfast --wpm 700 'wikipedia:Synthetic Biology'
- Inspiration from glance.wtf.
- Flag parsing from kingpin.
- Concept from Spritz.
- Wikipedia