Hi John

> | you can get a very detailed and easily checkable output from Prover9 by
> | using its Ivy proof objects (they are so simple that I even wrote a Mizar
> | import for it :-). It used to be an option to Otter, but it seems that
> | Bill now has a special tool for it: prooftrans
> | http://www.cs.unm.edu/~mccune/prover9/manual/2008-04A/prooftrans.html .
> | Search for IVY Proofs on that page.
>
> Yes, in fact that's just what I'm doing:
>
>  let retcode = Sys.command
>     (prover9 ^ " -f " ^ filename_in ^ " | prooftrans ivy >" ^ filename_out) in

OK, I should have looked at your code first :-).

> I agree that the proof format is simple, but I've never seen any
> explicit documentation beyond a brief paragraph on the Web page above.
> That's why I just reverse-engineered it from examples. The obvious
> alternative would be to read the source code for Ivy, which is what
> Bill McCune suggested when I asked him.
>
> I didn't know about your Mizar importer; is it available?

http://kti.ms.mff.cuni.cz/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ott2miz/ott2miz.el?rev=1.18&view=auto
But Mizar has only quite high-level steps which probably makes things 
easier.

> How did you figure out the proof format?

Probably also just by looking at it, possibly also from the Ivy paper and 
some Otter documentation. I think I debugged it by running on the whole 
TPTP couple of years ago.

Josef

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