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