Title: Port of the week: Sent | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 15 May 2018 | |
Tags: unix | |
Description: | |
As the new port of the week, We will discover **Sent**. While we could | |
think it is mail related, it is not. **Sent** is a nice software to | |
make presentations from a simple text file. It has been developped by | |
*Suckless*, a hacker community enjoying writing good software while | |
keeping a small and sane source code, they also made software like st, | |
dwm, slock, surf... | |
**Sent** is about simplicity. I will reuse a part of the example | |
file which is also the documentation of the tool. | |
usage: | |
$ sent FILE1 [FILE2 …] | |
▸ lines starting with # are ignored | |
▸ image slide: paragraph containing @FILENAME | |
▸ empty slide: just use a \ as a paragraph | |
@nyan.png | |
this text will not be displayed, since the @ at the start of the | |
first line | |
makes this paragraph an image slide. | |
The previous text, saved into a file and used with **sent** will open | |
a fullscreen window containg three "slides". Each slide will resize | |
the text to maximize the display usage, this mean the font size will | |
change on each slide. | |
It is really easy to use. To display next slide, you have the choice | |
between pressing space, right arrow, return or clicking any | |
button. Pressing left arrow will go back. | |
If you want to install it on OpenBSD: `pkg_add sent`, the package | |
comes from the port misc/sent. | |
Be careful, Sent does not produce any file, you will need it for the | |
presentation! | |
[Suckless sent website](https://tools.suckless.org/sent/) |