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1 sent |
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2 ==== |
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3 Simple plaintext presentation tool. |
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4 |
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5 [](sent-bullets.png) |
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7 sent does not need latex, libreoffice or any other fancy file format, it… |
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8 plaintext files to describe the slides and can also display images. Every |
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9 paragraph represents a slide in the presentation. Especially for present… |
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10 using the [Takahashi method](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_met… |
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11 this is very nice and allows you to write down the presentation for a qu… |
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12 lightning talk within a few minutes. |
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14 The presentation is displayed in a simple X11 window colored black on wh… |
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15 maximum contrast even if the sun shines directly onto the projected imag… |
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16 content of each slide is automatically scaled to fit the window so you d… |
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17 have to worry about alignment. Instead you can really focus on the conte… |
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19 Dependencies |
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20 ------------ |
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21 * Xlib and Xft for building |
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22 * [farbfeld](//tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/) tools to use images in the |
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23 presentations (if you don't want to use farbfeld, |
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24 [sent-0.2](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-0.2.tar.gz) was the last versi… |
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25 just png support, but may lack fixes and further improvements since its |
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26 release) |
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27 |
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28 Demo |
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29 ---- |
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30 To get a little demo, just type |
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31 |
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32 make && ./sent example |
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33 |
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34 You can navigate with the arrow keys and quit with `q`. |
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35 |
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36 (Non-)Features |
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37 -------------- |
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38 * A presentation is just a simple text file. |
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39 * Each paragraph represents one slide. |
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40 * Content is automatically scaled to fit the screen. |
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41 * UTF-8 is supported. |
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42 * Images can be displayed (no text on the same slide). |
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43 * Just around 1000 lines of C |
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44 * No different font styles (bold, italic, underline) |
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45 * No fancy layout options (different font sizes, different colors, …) |
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46 * No animations |
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47 * No support for automatic layouting paragraphs |
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48 * No export function. If you really need one, just use a shell script wi… |
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49 `xdotool` and your favorite screenshot application. |
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50 * Slides with exuberant amount of lines or characters produce rendering … |
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51 intentionally to prevent you from holding bad presentations. |
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52 |
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53 Usage |
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54 ----- |
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55 Edit config.h to fit your needs then build again. |
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56 |
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57 sent [FILE] |
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58 |
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59 If FILE is omitted or equals `-`, stdin will be read. Produce image slid… |
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60 prepending a `@` in front of the filename as a single paragraph. Lines s… |
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61 with `#` will be ignored. A `\\` at the beginning of the line escapes `@… |
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62 `#`. A presentation file could look like this: |
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64 sent |
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65 |
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66 @nyan.png |
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67 |
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68 depends on |
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69 - Xlib |
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70 - farbfeld |
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71 |
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72 sent FILENAME |
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73 one slide per paragraph |
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74 # This is a comment and will not be part of the presentation |
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75 \# This and the next line start with backslashes |
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76 |
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77 \@FILE.png |
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78 |
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79 thanks / questions? |
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81 A deeper example can be found in |
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82 [this file](//git.suckless.org/sent/tree/example) from the repository ro… |
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84 Development |
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85 ----------- |
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86 You can [browse](//git.suckless.org/sent) its source code repository or … |
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87 copy using the following command: |
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89 git clone https://git.suckless.org/sent |
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91 Download |
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93 * [sent-1](//dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-1.tar.gz) (20170904) |
