sent

simple plaintext presentation tool
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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