A Generic Approach to Building User Interfaces for Theorem Provers
✍ Scribed by Y. Bertot; L. Théry
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 713 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0747-7171
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✦ Synopsis
In this paper, we present the results of an ongoing effort in building user interfaces for proof systems. Our approach is generic: we are not constructing a user interface for a particular proof system, rather we have developed techniques and tools that have been applied to several proof systems. We first propose and motivate a distributed architecture, where the proof system and the interface are two separate processes communicating through a protocol. Then we describe three high-level features: proof-by-pointing, script management, and textual explanation. Altogether, they take advantage of the underlying architecture and yield a more user-friendly proof environment.