commit 735787a92f86610d5766937f41210ce77ddd8d4c
parent d70de1f4062be402d24c7b3d1c7fb675e20cf0b5
Author: Markus Teich <markus.teich@stusta.mhn.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:03:56 +0100
update sent page (multiline, add featurelist)
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools.suckless.org/sent.md b/tools.suckless.org/sent.md
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ sent
Simple plaintext presentation tool.
sent does not need latex, libreoffice or any other fancy file format, it uses
-plaintext files and png images. Currently every line represents a slide in the
-presentation. This may limit the use, but for presentations using the [Takahashi
+plaintext files and png images. Currently every paragraph represents a slide in
+the presentation. Especially for presentations using the [Takahashi
method](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_method) this is very nice and
allows you to write down the presentation for a quick lightning talk within a
few minutes.
@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ To get a little demo, just type
You can navigate with the arrow keys and quit with `q`.
+(Non-)Features
+--------------
+
+* A presentation is just a simple text file
+* Each paragraph represents one slide
+* Content is automatically scaled to fit the screen
+* UTF-8 is supported
+* PNG images can be displayed (no text on the same slide)
+* Just around 1000 lines of C.
+* No different font styles (bold, italic, underline)
+* No fancy layout options (different font sizes, different colors, …)
+* No animations
+
Usage
-----
@@ -37,17 +50,20 @@ before the filename. Lines starting with `#` will be ignored. A presentation
file could look like this:
sent
- why?
+
@nyan.png
- easy to use
- depends on Xlib, libpng
- no bloat
- how?
+
+ depends on
+ - Xlib
+ - libpng
+
sent FILENAME
- one slide per line
+ one slide per paragraph
# This is a comment and will not be part of the presentation
- # The next line starts with a whitespace, it will not produce an image slide
- @FILE.png
+ \# This and the next line start with backslashes
+
+ \@FILE.png
+
thanks / questions?
Development