suckless.org software program that sucks much less
Easy plaintext presentation device.
despatched doesn’t want latex, libreoffice or some other fancy file format, it makes use of
plaintext information to explain the slides and may show photographs. Each
paragraph represents a slide within the presentation. Particularly for shows
utilizing the Takahashi method
that is very good and lets you write down the presentation for a fast
lightning speak inside a couple of minutes.
The presentation is displayed in a easy X11 window coloured black on white for
most distinction even when the solar shines immediately onto the projected picture. The
content material of every slide is mechanically scaled to suit the window so you do not
have to fret about alignment. As an alternative you’ll be able to actually concentrate on the content material.
Dependencies
- Xlib and Xft for constructing
- farbfeld instruments to make use of photographs within the
shows (should you do not need to use farbfeld,
sent-0.2 was the final model with
simply png assist, however could lack fixes and additional enhancements since its
launch)
Demo
To get a bit of demo, simply sort
make && ./despatched instance
You’ll be able to navigate with the arrow keys and stop with q.
(Non-)Options
- A presentation is only a easy textual content file.
- Every paragraph represents one slide.
- Content material is mechanically scaled to suit the display screen.
- UTF-8 is supported.
- Photographs could be displayed (no textual content on the identical slide).
- Simply round 1000 strains of C
- No totally different font types (daring, italic, underline)
- No fancy format choices (totally different font sizes, totally different colours, …)
- No animations
- No assist for computerized layouting paragraphs
- No export operate. If you really want one, simply use a shell script with
xdotooland your favourite screenshot utility. - Slides with exuberant quantity of strains or characters produce rendering glitches
deliberately to forestall you from holding unhealthy shows.
Utilization
Edit config.h to suit your wants then construct once more.
despatched [FILE]
If FILE is omitted or equals -, stdin shall be learn. Produce picture slides by
prepending a @ in entrance of the filename as a single paragraph. Traces beginning
with # shall be ignored. A ` at first of the road escapes @ and#`. A presentation file might appear to be this:
despatched
@nyan.png
relies on
- Xlib
- farbfeld
despatched FILENAME
one slide per paragraph
# This can be a remark and won't be a part of the presentation
# This and the following line begin with backslashes
@FILE.png
thanks / questions?
A deeper instance could be present in
this file from the repository root.
Improvement
You’ll be able to browse its supply code repository or get a
copy utilizing the next command:
git clone https://git.suckless.org/despatched