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