commit a0ecfb671518a86888fddec551f803e3621b93c4
parent 1a616fb2aa2585649a8b31d946b28cb91dd9fe5f
Author: Markus Teich <markus.teich@stusta.mhn.de>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 22:26:49 +0100
[sent] update description for farbfeld usage
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools.suckless.org/sent/index.md b/tools.suckless.org/sent/index.md
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ Simple plaintext presentation tool.
->[](sent-bullets.png)<-
sent does not need latex, libreoffice or any other fancy file format, it uses
-plaintext files and png images. Every paragraph represents a slide in the
-presentation. Especially for presentations using the [Takahashi
+plaintext files to describe the slides and can include images via
+[farbfeld](http://git.2f30.org/farbfeld/about/). 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.
@@ -18,6 +19,15 @@ content of each slide is automatically scaled to fit the window so you don't
have to worry about alignment. Instead you can really concentrate on the
content.
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+* Xlib for building
+* farbfeld tools to use images in the presentations (if you don't want to use
+ farbfeld, [sent-0.2](http://dl.suckless.org/tools/sent-0.2.tar.gz) was the
+ last version with png support, but may lack fixes and further improvements
+ since its release)
+
Demo
----
@@ -34,7 +44,8 @@ You can navigate with the arrow keys and quit with `q`.
* 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)
+* (transparent) images can be displayed (no text on the same slide), farbfeld
+ required
* Just around 1000 lines of C.
* No different font styles (bold, italic, underline)
* No fancy layout options (different font sizes, different colors, …)
@@ -63,7 +74,7 @@ presentation file could look like this:
depends on
- Xlib
- - libpng
+ - farbfeld
sent FILENAME
one slide per paragraph
@@ -74,6 +85,9 @@ presentation file could look like this:
thanks / questions?
+A deeper example can be found in [this
+file](http://git.suckless.org/sent/tree/example) from the repository root.
+
Development
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