HINT: The Viewer

Programs to view HINT files

Documentation and Sources

The hint viewer software consists of a backend, written in C and several frontends. The backend is reusable, the frontends are specific for an operating system. Currently two frontends are available: for Windows and for Android. The Android HintView is joint work with Prof. Gudrun Socher.

A book is in preparation. The sources will become available with the printed documentation.

Missing Features

In the backend:

• Page Templates
  Consequently no support for footnotes or floats.
• Postscript Type1 fonts
  Only PK and TrueType fonts are supported

In the frontend:

• The Android viewer has no print support.

Warning

• These are pre-release versions of the HINT file viewer. They are still buggy but can be used to conduct experiments.

Binaries

• Windows: hintvc32.exe

  There is no special installation required, just copy the executable to a directory on your search path. You may want to associate the viewer with .hnt files.

• Android: HintView

  Example Files

  • bmp.hnt bmp.tex A.bmp Text with a bitmap image.

  • png.hnt png.tex A.png Text with a png image.

  • jpg.hnt jpg.tex A.jpg Text with a jpg image.

  • image.hnt image.tex Loewe.bmp Head.bmp Images that shrink and stretch like glue

  • leaders.hnt leaders.tex Leaders as in a table of content

  • display.hnt display.tex Displayed formulas and equation numbers

  • format.hnt The book: HINT: The File Folrmat

  • ligature.hnt ligature.tex Ligatures for testing hyphenation and page breaking

  • math.hnt math.tex Some math

  • mfpreface.hnt mfpreface.tex The preface of the METAFONT book

  • sample2e.hnt sample2e.tex The basic LaTex Example file

  • ueb2.hnt ueb2.tex A typical example of weekly exercises in a course on programming

  • texe.hnt cwebman.hnt Thanks to Igor Liferenko, here is Appendix E from the TEX Book and the cweb manual in Russian.

    The examples illustrate the use of non-latin fonts and hyphenation as well as some of the shortcommings that occur, if TEX code that was not designed for a variable page format is displayed using HINT.

    Errata and Improvements

    • To be continued ...