I still use it sometimes, but it could be better. I don’t think the quality of 
the layout is actually that important. Part of the problem is that, these days, 
you have to jump through a dozen hoops just to enable Java in a web browser.
Larry

On 23 Jan 2014, at 12:55, Makarius <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Jasmin Blanchette wrote:
> 
>> I would like to mention the central role played by Isabelle/jEdit for 
>> refactoring the theories, in particular reorganizing the theory imports. The 
>> "Theories" and "Sidekick" pannels were simply invaluable.
> 
> At some point I would like to see the theory graph directly in "Theories" or 
> a variant of "Sidekick".  The front-end know the structure, without asking 
> the prover.
> 
> Isabelle/Graphview is still lying around in an usuable state, and merely 
> consuming Isabelle/Scala build time.  After 2 years of work on that student 
> project, it turned out to lack an important phase of the layout algorithmn.  
> Since then the situation is fluctuating between myself trying to finish it, 
> trying to find a smart guy to do it, or trying to convince Stefan Berghofer 
> to learn some Scala and port his old stuff by himself.
> 
> In 1996, Stefan implemented state-of-the art DAG layout in Java 1.1 from 
> scratch within a few weeks, but such things seem to take forever these days.  
> I am getting depressed each time I see applications that invoke the "dot" 
> (aka "graphviz") tools via external command-line, with layout algorithms 
> unchanged since 1995.
> 
> 
>       Makarius
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