colored-sent

sent is a simple plaintext presentation tool.

sent does not need latex, libreoffice or any other fancy file format, it uses plaintext files to describe the slides and can include images via farbfeld. Every paragraph represents a slide in the presentation.

The presentation is displayed in a simple X11 window. The content of each slide is automatically scaled to fit the window and centered so you also don't have to worry about alignment. Instead you can really concentrate on the content.

Dependencies

You need

Xlib
Xft
cairo To build sent

And the

farbfeld Tools installed to use images in your presentations.

Demo

To get a little demo, just type

make && ./sent example

You can navigate with the arrow keys and quit with q.

Usage

sent [FILE]

If FILE is omitted or equals -, stdin will be read. Produce image slides by prepending a @ in front of the filename as a single paragraph. Lines starting with # will be ignored. A \ at the beginning of the line escapes @ and #. A presentation file could look like this:

sent

@nyan.png

depends on
- Xlib
- Xft
- cairo
- farbfeld

sent FILENAME
one slide per paragraph
# This is a comment and will not be part of the presentation
\# This and the next line start with backslashes

\@FILE.png

thanks / questions?

Colors

Line color support has been added with the special combination "c#".

Each text line supports only one color: the default or the special one (you cannot have text with two different colors in the same line).

The special color must be entered at the beggining of the line.

Example slide:

sent
c#00ff00 with 
c#0000FFcolors

Will print "sent" in the default foreground color (defined in config.h), "with" in green and "colors" in blue.

Note that the word "colors" has no space between the hex color and itself. This is because a single space after the color is optional and ommited when printing. Using multiple spaces (like c#0000FF colors) will ignore the first one after the last F and print the rest.

PDF Output

I added support for PDF output using @BigHeadGeorge sent-pdffork of sent.

As he states in the repo's README:

PDF sucks, but so does school.

I made this so I don't have to take my laptop to school to give a presentation with sent.

Press 'g' (preferably while fullscreen) and sent will flip through all of your slides and spit them out as a PDF.

Original repository

Development

sent is developed at http://tools.suckless.org/sent

mzahnd / colored-sent