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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