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