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As a first step toward a deeper refactoring of the reference manual, we move existing chapters into a new structure. We use the Sphinx support for top-level chapters spanning multiple pages to consolidate existing chapters into a smaller number of chapters and a smaller number of parts. Now the full top-level table of content can be seen in one glance. Most of the new chapters are divided into several sub-chapters (on separate pages) that correspond to the pre-existing chapters. These new top-level chapters gathering several chapters together have gained a new introduction. The main introduction has been rewritten / simplified as well. For now, the URL of pre-existing chapters does not change. The intent is to further refactor the manual by splitting some of these sub-chapters into smaller ones, and by moving things around. While the sub-chapters are likely to evolve very much in the future, the top-level table of content is almost final (except that the "Using Coq" part may gain one or two additional chapters on proof engineering / project management). Thanks to Jim Fehrle for investigating how to split a chapter on multiple pages and to both Jim and Matthieu Sozeau for the discussion that led to this new structure. See also the related CEP: https://github.com/coq/ceps/pull/43 Additional notes: - A new directory structure has been created reflecting the new chapter structure. - The indexes chapter has been removed from the PDF version since it wasn't working. Co-authored-by: Jim Fehrle <jfehrle@sbcglobal.net>
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+.. _writing-proofs:
+
+==============
+Writing proofs
+==============
+
+Coq is an interactive theorem prover, or proof assistant, which means
+that proofs can be constructed interactively through a dialog between
+the user and the assistant. The building blocks for this dialog are
+tactics which the user will use to represent steps in the proof of a
+theorem.
+
+Incomplete proofs have one or more open (unproven) sub-goals. Each
+goal has its own context (a set of assumptions that can be used to
+prove the goal). Tactics can transform goals and contexts.
+Internally, the incomplete proof is represented as a partial proof
+term, with holes for the unproven sub-goals.
+
+When a proof is complete, the user leaves the proof mode and defers
+the verification of the resulting proof term to the :ref:`kernel
+<core-language>`.
+
+This chapter is divided in several sub-chapters, describing the basic
+ideas of the proof mode (during which tactics can be used), and
+several flavors of tactics, including the SSReflect proof language:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ ../../proof-engine/proof-handling
+ ../../proof-engine/tactics
+ ../../proof-engine/ssreflect-proof-language
+ ../../proof-engine/detailed-tactic-examples
+ ../../user-extensions/proof-schemes