sent.1 (1811B)
1.Dd August 12, 2016 2.Dt SENT 1 3.Os 4.Sh NAME 5.Nm sent 6.Nd simple plaintext presentation tool 7.Sh SYNOPSIS 8.Nm 9.Op Fl v 10.Op Ar file 11.Sh DESCRIPTION 12.Nm 13is a simple plain text presentation tool for X. sent does not need LaTeX, 14LibreOffice or any other fancy file format. 15Instead, sent reads plain text describing the slides. sent can also draw 16images. 17.Pp 18Every paragraph represents a slide in the presentation. 19Especially for presentations using the Takahashi method this is very nice and 20allows you to write the presentation for a quick lightning talk within a few 21minutes. 22.Sh OPTIONS 23.Bl -tag -width Ds 24.It Fl v 25Print version information to stdout and exit. 26.El 27.Sh USAGE 28.Bl -tag -width Ds 29.It Em Mouse commands 30.Bl -tag -width Ds 31.It Sy Button1 | Button5 32Go to next slide, if existent. 33.It Sy Button3 | Button4 34Go to previous slide, if existent. 35.El 36.It Em Keyboard commands 37.Bl -tag -width Ds 38.It Sy Escape | q 39Quit. 40.It Sy r 41Reload the slides. 42Only works on file input. 43.It Sy Right | Return | Space | l | j | Down | Next | n 44Go to next slide, if existent. 45.It Sy Left | Backspace | h | k | Up | Prior | p 46Go to previous slide, if existent. 47.El 48.El 49.Sh FORMAT 50The presentation file is made up of at least one paragraph, with an 51empty line separating two slides. 52Each input line is interpreted literally, except from control characters 53at the beginning of lines described as follows: 54.Bl -tag -width Ds 55.It Sy @ 56Create individual slide containing the image pointed to by the filename 57following the 58.Sy @ . 59.It Sy # 60Ignore this input line. 61.It Sy \e 62Create input line using the characters following the 63.Sy \e 64without interpreting them. 65.El 66.Sh CUSTOMIZATION 67.Nm 68can be customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the 69source code. 70This keeps it fast, secure and simple. 71.Sh SEE ALSO 72.Xr 2ff 1