sent is a simple plaintext presentation tool.

sent does not need latex, libreoffice or any other fancy file format, it uses plaintext files to describe the slides and can include images via farbfeld. Every paragraph represents a slide in the presentation.

The presentation is displayed in a simple X11 window. The content of each slide is automatically scaled to fit the window and centered so you also don’t have to worry about alignment. Instead you can really concentrate on the content.

Dependencies

You need Xlib and Xft to build sent and the farbfeld[0] tools installed to use images in your presentations.

Demo

To get a little demo, just type

	make && ./sent example

You can navigate with the arrow keys and quit with `q`.

Usage

	sent [FILE]

If FILE is omitted or equals `-`, stdin will be read. Produce image slides by prepending a `@` in front of the filename as a single paragraph. Lines starting with `#` will be ignored. A `` at the beginning of the line escapes `@` and `#`. A presentation file could look like this:

sent

@nyan.png

depends on

• Xlib
• Xft
• farbfeld

sent FILENAME one slide per paragraph

\# This and the next line start with backslashes

\@FILE.png

thanks / questions?

Patchs

• Progress Bar: This patch introduces a progress bar at the very bottom of non-image slides. Similar to the slide numbers patch, it may be useful for an audience to know how much more of a presentation they have to endure. One way of measuring this is to add a bar to the slides which indicate the presenter’s progress based on slide count. by David Phillips david@sighup.nz
• Xresources: This patch adds the ability to configure sent via Xresources. At startup, sent will read and apply the change to the applicable resource. Below are the resources that can be changed and what they change:
  • sent.font: font being used on sent, support multiple fonts to define the fallbacks.
  • sent.foreground: foreground color
  • sent.background: background color

Note: Values in Xresources will override values in config.h.

• Commandline Options: This patch adds extra command line options to sent for setting the font and the background and foreground colors.

	sent -f serif -c \#cc88cc -b gray90 ./example

Development

0: http://tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/