Browser View Support & Converter to HTML

[GiacomoZheng]

Is it possible to use Web Browser to view the .hnt files? We can use edge, chrome or safari to open the .pdf.

Also, is it possible to convert .hnt into .html, just like the latexml project?

[ruckertm]

Hi Giacomo,
for the HINT file format you need a viewer that can read it. A viewer, that works as a browser pugin is currently not available. It would however be a very interesting project. The binary (or short format) HINT files can be converted by the hstretch program to a text based format which is already quite close to html. The source for hstretch is open source, so it is possible to modify the source and generate html.
I am not a browser-plugin specialist nor an html specialist and my time does not allow taking up such projects but I will support anyone who wants to start such a project.
Best regards
Martin

[GiacomoZheng]

Dear Ruckertm,

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I am not an expert in html as well. May I ask what is the usage of the .hint file? I mean, any viewer for it?

Also, I am using your HINT viewer on MAC, and I find the "autoreload" functionality works very slow. Is it normal or a bug of the MAC version?

Thank you for your attention.

Best regards,
Renpeng