NAME

App::termpub - Epubreader for the terminal

SYNOPSIS

termpub file

DESCRIPTION

termpub is a terminal viewer for epubs.

At startup termpub displays the first chapter with real content if possible. It will save your reading position and restore it.

KEY BINDINGS

• h, ?

  Display help screen.

• n

  Go to the next chapter.

• p

  Go to the previous chapter.

• t

  Jump to the table of contents.

• m

  Followed by any lowercase letter, marks the current position with that letter.

• '

  Followed by any lowercase letter, returns to the position which was previously marked with that letter. Followed by another single quote, returns to the position at which the last "large" movement command was executed.

• [num] %

  Go to a line N percent into the chapter.

• [num] g

  Go to line num in the chapter, defaults to 1.

• [num] G

  Go to line num in the chapter, default to the end of the chapter.

• [num] o

  Open link num. termpub calls xdg-open with the url as first argument if the link references an external ressource.

• C-g

  Cancel numeric prefix num argument.

• KEY_DOWN, j

  Scroll one line down.

• KEY_UP, k

  Scroll one line up.

• KEY_NPAGE, SPACE

  Scroll forward one window.

• KEY_PPAGE, KEY_BACKSPACE

  Scroll backward one window.

• KEY_HOME

  Go to the beginning of the current chapter.

• KEY_END

  Go to the ned of the current chapter.

• <,>

  Go back or forward in the chapter history.

• q

  Quit.

INSTALLATION

If you have cpanminus installed, you can simply install this program by calling

$ cpanm .

Otherwise you can build a standalone script with

$ ./build-standalone

and copy the generated script termpub somewhere in your path. In this case you need to installed the dependencies yourself. Termpub depends on the perl modules Mojolicious, Curses and Archive::Zip. On Debian the following command will install these packages.

$ apt-get install libmojolicious-perl libcurses-perl libarchive-zip-perl

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2019 Mario Domgoergen <mario@domgoergen.com>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.