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Proof General is distributed under the terms of the .
See below for software pre-requisites for running Proof General.

Proof General Version 3.3, released 10th September 2001

Proof General is available as an archive and an RPM package.

Both the tarball and the RPM package include the generic elisp code, code for the supported provers, installation instructions and documentation in Info and HTML formats. Documentation is available in other formats here here. If you want to format the documentation yourself, you may like to download the . Note that we don't ship an SRPM now, since you can build the RPM directly from the source tarball using rpm -ta.

This version of Proof General has been tested with XEmacs 21.4 and (briefly with) GNU Emacs 20.7. It supports earlier versions of both Emacsen, but we recommend using these versions. This version of Proof General does not support GNU Emacs 21.x, please try out a development release instead.

Check the file for a summary of changes since version 3.2.

Check the latest file (also ) before reporting problems. If you find a problem not already mentioned, please .

What you need to run Proof General

To run Proof General, you must have:

• Version 21.1 or later of XEmacs (this UK ftp mirror may help).
  or version 20.7 of the much poorer GNU GNU Emacs.
  Both Emacsen are available for a variety of platforms, including Unix variants and Windows 95/98/NT/2k.
• One or more of the supported proof assistants. Or write your own support for a new assistant.
  See the front page for links to supported assistants.

There are also some optional components for using Proof General:

• For displaying logical and mathematical symbols, the excellent X-Symbol package.
  It's very easy to install. See here for installation notes.
  X-Symbol presently only works with XEmacs on systems running X.

All components mentioned above are distributed under the GPL license.

Easy installation of Proof General

To use Proof General, simply unpack the sources with

tar xpzf ProofGeneral-3.3.tar.gz

(use gunzip first in place of z if you don't have GNU tar),
and then add this one line to your .emacs file:

(load-file "directory/generic/proof-site.el")

Where directory is the directory in which you unpacked the sources.
If you use the RPM package, directory is /usr/share/emacs/ProofGeneral

If you're using Windows, then download the zip file.
Use a zip file utility to unpack it somewhere, for example c:\\ProofGeneral

Further customization is possible via the Customize menus in Emacs.
See the file in the distribution for more details.

Easy installation of X-Symbol

X-Symbol is easy to install and configures itself automatically.

Simply download the binary package file, and do something like this to install in your home directory:

mkdir -p ~/.xemacs
cd ~/.xemacs
tar xpzf ../x-symbol-pkg.tar.gz

NB: if you have version 21.x of XEmacs, you may need to install x-symbol inside a subdirectory ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages instead of ~/.xemacs.