A generic approach to building user interfaces for theorem provers
Journal of Symbolic Computation - Special issue graphical user interfaces and protocols
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
A Metalanguage for interactive proof in LCF
POPL '78 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
Proof General: A Generic Tool for Proof Development
TACAS '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems: Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2000
The Seventeen Provers of the World: Foreword by Dana S. Scott (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
PlatΩ: A Mediator between Text-Editors and Proof Assistance Systems
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
User Interaction with the Matita Proof Assistant
Journal of Automated Reasoning
A Framework for Interactive Proof
Calculemus '07 / MKM '07 Proceedings of the 14th symposium on Towards Mechanized Mathematical Assistants: 6th International Conference
Proviola: a tool for proof re-animation
AISC'10/MKM'10/Calculemus'10 Proceedings of the 10th ASIC and 9th MKM international conference, and 17th Calculemus conference on Intelligent computer mathematics
XML-izing mizar: making semantic processing and presentation of MML easy
MKM'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management
Challenges and experiences in managing large-scale proofs
CICM'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
Point-and-write: documenting formal mathematics by reference
CICM'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
CICM'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
Isabelle/jEdit: a prover IDE within the PIDE framework
CICM'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
A web interface for isabelle: the next generation
CICM'13 Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
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Proof assistants in the LCF tradition, such as Coq, Isabelle, and the HOL family, are notorious for old-fashioned command-line interaction with input and output of plain text. Established prover interfaces like Proof General merely add a thin layer on top of the read-eval-print loop in the background. More sophisticated mathematical editors, Webservices, Wiki-servers for mathematical content do exist, but any project that aims at fully formal proof-checking struggles with recurrent problems posed by ancient prover engines. Taking the perspective of Isabelle, we discuss common problems and solutions that have emerged in the past few years, to fit the prover smoothly into a document-oriented environment with rich semantic annotations for formal sources. For example, this enables a conventional editor framework to present formal content provided by the prover, without having to understand logic itself (or re-implement a prover). This can be achieved with minimal changes on the editor and prover side, but the combination is able to support the usual metaphors of squiggly underline, tooltips, popups etc. that are now commonplace in browsers or IDEs. Many of these document-oriented traits of current Isabelle are sufficiently general to be transferred to other provers. If such principles are becoming routinely available in LCF-style provers, building combined mathematical assistants should become more feasible.