converted syntax.tex to Thy/syntax.thy;
authorwenzelm
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:22:42 +0200
changeset 26754 c0424e4de33d
parent 26753 094d70c81243
child 26755 84408d6ff180
converted syntax.tex to Thy/syntax.thy;
doc-src/IsarRef/IsaMakefile
doc-src/IsarRef/Makefile
doc-src/IsarRef/Thy/ROOT.ML
doc-src/IsarRef/Thy/document/session.tex
doc-src/IsarRef/Thy/document/syntax.tex
doc-src/IsarRef/Thy/syntax.thy
doc-src/IsarRef/isar-ref.tex
doc-src/IsarRef/syntax.tex
--- a/doc-src/IsarRef/IsaMakefile	Mon Apr 28 13:41:04 2008 +0200
+++ b/doc-src/IsarRef/IsaMakefile	Mon Apr 28 14:22:42 2008 +0200
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 
 Thy: $(LOG)/Pure-Thy.gz
 
-$(LOG)/Pure-Thy.gz: Thy/ROOT.ML ../antiquote_setup.ML Thy/intro.thy
+$(LOG)/Pure-Thy.gz: Thy/ROOT.ML ../antiquote_setup.ML Thy/intro.thy \
+  Thy/syntax.thy
 	@$(USEDIR) Pure Thy
 
 
--- a/doc-src/IsarRef/Makefile	Mon Apr 28 13:41:04 2008 +0200
+++ b/doc-src/IsarRef/Makefile	Mon Apr 28 14:22:42 2008 +0200
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 NAME = isar-ref
 
-FILES = isar-ref.tex Thy/document/intro.tex basics.tex syntax.tex pure.tex \
+FILES = isar-ref.tex Thy/document/intro.tex basics.tex Thy/document/syntax.tex pure.tex \
 	generic.tex logics.tex refcard.tex conversion.tex \
 	../isar.sty ../rail.sty ../railsetup.sty ../proof.sty \
 	../iman.sty ../extra.sty ../ttbox.sty ../manual.bib
--- a/doc-src/IsarRef/Thy/ROOT.ML	Mon Apr 28 13:41:04 2008 +0200
+++ b/doc-src/IsarRef/Thy/ROOT.ML	Mon Apr 28 14:22:42 2008 +0200
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 
 use "../../antiquote_setup.ML";
 use_thy "intro";
+use_thy "syntax";
--- a/doc-src/IsarRef/Thy/document/session.tex	Mon Apr 28 13:41:04 2008 +0200
+++ b/doc-src/IsarRef/Thy/document/session.tex	Mon Apr 28 14:22:42 2008 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 \input{intro.tex}
 
+\input{syntax.tex}
+
 %%% Local Variables:
 %%% mode: latex
 %%% TeX-master: "root"
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/doc-src/IsarRef/Thy/document/syntax.tex	Mon Apr 28 14:22:42 2008 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,785 @@
+%
+\begin{isabellebody}%
+\def\isabellecontext{syntax}%
+%
+\isadelimtheory
+\isanewline
+%
+\endisadelimtheory
+%
+\isatagtheory
+\isacommand{theory}\isamarkupfalse%
+\ {\isachardoublequoteopen}syntax{\isachardoublequoteclose}\isanewline
+\isakeyword{imports}\ CPure\isanewline
+\isakeyword{begin}%
+\endisatagtheory
+{\isafoldtheory}%
+%
+\isadelimtheory
+%
+\endisadelimtheory
+%
+\isamarkupchapter{Syntax primitives%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+The rather generic framework of Isabelle/Isar syntax emerges from
+  three main syntactic categories: \emph{commands} of the top-level
+  Isar engine (covering theory and proof elements), \emph{methods} for
+  general goal refinements (analogous to traditional ``tactics''), and
+  \emph{attributes} for operations on facts (within a certain
+  context).  Subsequently we give a reference of basic syntactic
+  entities underlying Isabelle/Isar syntax in a bottom-up manner.
+  Concrete theory and proof language elements will be introduced later
+  on.
+
+  \medskip In order to get started with writing well-formed
+  Isabelle/Isar documents, the most important aspect to be noted is
+  the difference of \emph{inner} versus \emph{outer} syntax.  Inner
+  syntax is that of Isabelle types and terms of the logic, while outer
+  syntax is that of Isabelle/Isar theory sources (specifications and
+  proofs).  As a general rule, inner syntax entities may occur only as
+  \emph{atomic entities} within outer syntax.  For example, the string
+  \texttt{"x + y"} and identifier \texttt{z} are legal term
+  specifications within a theory, while \texttt{x + y} is not.
+
+  Printed theory documents usually omit quotes to gain readability
+  (this is a matter of {\LaTeX} macro setup, say via
+  \verb,\isabellestyle,, see also \cite{isabelle-sys}).  Experienced
+  users of Isabelle/Isar may easily reconstruct the lost technical
+  information, while mere readers need not care about quotes at all.
+
+  \medskip Isabelle/Isar input may contain any number of input
+  termination characters ``\texttt{;}'' (semicolon) to separate
+  commands explicitly.  This is particularly useful in interactive
+  shell sessions to make clear where the current command is intended
+  to end.  Otherwise, the interpreter loop will continue to issue a
+  secondary prompt ``\verb,#,'' until an end-of-command is clearly
+  recognized from the input syntax, e.g.\ encounter of the next
+  command keyword.
+
+  More advanced interfaces such as Proof~General \cite{proofgeneral}
+  do not require explicit semicolons, the amount of input text is
+  determined automatically by inspecting the present content of the
+  Emacs text buffer.  In the printed presentation of Isabelle/Isar
+  documents semicolons are omitted altogether for readability.
+
+  \begin{warn}
+    Proof~General requires certain syntax classification tables in
+    order to achieve properly synchronized interaction with the
+    Isabelle/Isar process.  These tables need to be consistent with
+    the Isabelle version and particular logic image to be used in a
+    running session (common object-logics may well change the outer
+    syntax).  The standard setup should work correctly with any of the
+    ``official'' logic images derived from Isabelle/HOL (including
+    HOLCF etc.).  Users of alternative logics may need to tell
+    Proof~General explicitly, e.g.\ by giving an option \verb,-k ZF,
+    (in conjunction with \verb,-l ZF, to specify the default logic
+    image).
+  \end{warn}%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsection{Lexical matters \label{sec:lex-syntax}%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+The Isabelle/Isar outer syntax provides token classes as presented
+  below; most of these coincide with the inner lexical syntax as
+  presented in \cite{isabelle-ref}.
+
+  \begin{matharray}{rcl}
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{ident}\isa{ident} & = & letter\,quasiletter^* \\
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{longident}\isa{longident} & = & ident (\verb,.,ident)^+ \\
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{symident}\isa{symident} & = & sym^+ ~|~ \verb,\,\verb,<,ident\verb,>, \\
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{nat}\isa{nat} & = & digit^+ \\
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{var}\isa{var} & = & ident ~|~ \verb,?,ident ~|~ \verb,?,ident\verb,.,nat \\
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{typefree}\isa{typefree} & = & \verb,',ident \\
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{typevar}\isa{typevar} & = & typefree ~|~ \verb,?,typefree ~|~ \verb,?,typefree\verb,.,nat \\
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{string}\isa{string} & = & \verb,", ~\dots~ \verb,", \\
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{altstring}\isa{altstring} & = & \backquote ~\dots~ \backquote \\
+    \indexdef{}{syntax}{verbatim}\isa{verbatim} & = & \verb,{*, ~\dots~ \verb,*,\verb,}, \\[1ex]
+
+    letter & = & latin ~|~ \verb,\,\verb,<,latin\verb,>, ~|~ \verb,\,\verb,<,latin\,latin\verb,>, ~|~ greek ~|~ \\
+           &   & \verb,\<^isub>, ~|~ \verb,\<^isup>, \\
+    quasiletter & = & letter ~|~ digit ~|~ \verb,_, ~|~ \verb,', \\
+    latin & = & \verb,a, ~|~ \dots ~|~ \verb,z, ~|~ \verb,A, ~|~ \dots ~|~ \verb,Z, \\
+    digit & = & \verb,0, ~|~ \dots ~|~ \verb,9, \\
+    sym & = & \verb,!, ~|~ \verb,#, ~|~ \verb,$, ~|~ \verb,%, ~|~ \verb,&, ~|~
+     \verb,*, ~|~ \verb,+, ~|~ \verb,-, ~|~ \verb,/, ~|~ \\
+    & & \verb,<, ~|~ \verb,=, ~|~ \verb,>, ~|~ \verb,?, ~|~ \texttt{\at} ~|~
+    \verb,^, ~|~ \verb,_, ~|~ \verb,|, ~|~ \verb,~, \\
+    greek & = & \verb,\<alpha>, ~|~ \verb,\<beta>, ~|~ \verb,\<gamma>, ~|~ \verb,\<delta>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<epsilon>, ~|~ \verb,\<zeta>, ~|~ \verb,\<eta>, ~|~ \verb,\<theta>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<iota>, ~|~ \verb,\<kappa>, ~|~ \verb,\<mu>, ~|~ \verb,\<nu>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<xi>, ~|~ \verb,\<pi>, ~|~ \verb,\<rho>, ~|~ \verb,\<sigma>, ~|~ \verb,\<tau>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<upsilon>, ~|~ \verb,\<phi>, ~|~ \verb,\<chi>, ~|~ \verb,\<psi>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<omega>, ~|~ \verb,\<Gamma>, ~|~ \verb,\<Delta>, ~|~ \verb,\<Theta>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<Lambda>, ~|~ \verb,\<Xi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Pi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Sigma>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<Upsilon>, ~|~ \verb,\<Phi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Psi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Omega>, \\
+  \end{matharray}
+
+  The syntax of \isa{string} admits any characters, including
+  newlines; ``\verb|"|'' (double-quote) and ``\verb|\|'' (backslash)
+  need to be escaped by a backslash; arbitrary character codes may be
+  specified as ``\verb|\|$ddd$'', with 3 decimal digits.  Alternative
+  strings according to \isa{altstring} are analogous, using single
+  back-quotes instead.  The body of \isa{verbatim} may consist of
+  any text not containing ``\verb,*,\verb,},''; this allows convenient
+  inclusion of quotes without further escapes.  The greek letters do
+  \emph{not} include \verb,\<lambda>,, which is already used differently in
+  the meta-logic.
+
+  Common mathematical symbols such as \isa{{\isasymforall}} are represented in
+  Isabelle as \verb,\<forall>,.  There are infinitely many Isabelle symbols
+  like this, although proper presentation is left to front-end tools
+  such as {\LaTeX} or Proof~General with the X-Symbol package.  A list
+  of standard Isabelle symbols that work well with these tools is
+  given in \cite[appendix~A]{isabelle-sys}.
+  
+  Source comments take the form \texttt{(*~\dots~*)} and may be
+  nested, although user-interface tools might prevent this.  Note that
+  \texttt{(*~\dots~*)} indicate source comments only, which are
+  stripped after lexical analysis of the input.  The Isar document
+  syntax also provides formal comments that are considered as part of
+  the text (see \S\ref{sec:comments}).%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsection{Common syntax entities%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+We now introduce several basic syntactic entities, such as names,
+  terms, and theorem specifications, which are factored out of the
+  actual Isar language elements to be described later.%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Names%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+Entity \railqtok{name} usually refers to any name of types,
+  constants, theorems etc.\ that are to be \emph{declared} or
+  \emph{defined} (so qualified identifiers are excluded here).  Quoted
+  strings provide an escape for non-identifier names or those ruled
+  out by outer syntax keywords (e.g.\ \verb|"let"|).  Already existing
+  objects are usually referenced by \railqtok{nameref}.
+
+  \indexoutertoken{name}\indexoutertoken{parname}\indexoutertoken{nameref}
+  \indexoutertoken{int}
+  \begin{rail}
+    name: ident | symident | string | nat
+    ;
+    parname: '(' name ')'
+    ;
+    nameref: name | longident
+    ;
+    int: nat | '-' nat
+    ;
+  \end{rail}%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Comments \label{sec:comments}%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+Large chunks of plain \railqtok{text} are usually given
+  \railtok{verbatim}, i.e.\ enclosed in
+  \verb,{,\verb,*,~\dots~\verb,*,\verb,},.  For convenience, any of
+  the smaller text units conforming to \railqtok{nameref} are admitted
+  as well.  A marginal \railnonterm{comment} is of the form
+  \texttt{--} \railqtok{text}.  Any number of these may occur within
+  Isabelle/Isar commands.
+
+  \indexoutertoken{text}\indexouternonterm{comment}
+  \begin{rail}
+    text: verbatim | nameref
+    ;
+    comment: '--' text
+    ;
+  \end{rail}%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Type classes, sorts and arities%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+Classes are specified by plain names.  Sorts have a very simple
+  inner syntax, which is either a single class name \isa{c} or a
+  list \isa{{\isacharbraceleft}c\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}{\isacharcomma}\ {\isasymdots}{\isacharcomma}\ c\isactrlsub n{\isacharbraceright}} referring to the
+  intersection of these classes.  The syntax of type arities is given
+  directly at the outer level.
+
+  \railalias{subseteq}{\isasymsubseteq}
+  \railterm{subseteq}
+
+  \indexouternonterm{sort}\indexouternonterm{arity}
+  \indexouternonterm{classdecl}
+  \begin{rail}
+    classdecl: name (('<' | subseteq) (nameref + ','))?
+    ;
+    sort: nameref
+    ;
+    arity: ('(' (sort + ',') ')')? sort
+    ;
+  \end{rail}%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Types and terms \label{sec:types-terms}%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+The actual inner Isabelle syntax, that of types and terms of the
+  logic, is far too sophisticated in order to be modelled explicitly
+  at the outer theory level.  Basically, any such entity has to be
+  quoted to turn it into a single token (the parsing and type-checking
+  is performed internally later).  For convenience, a slightly more
+  liberal convention is adopted: quotes may be omitted for any type or
+  term that is already atomic at the outer level.  For example, one
+  may just write \texttt{x} instead of \texttt{"x"}.  Note that
+  symbolic identifiers (e.g.\ \texttt{++} or \isa{{\isasymforall}} are available
+  as well, provided these have not been superseded by commands or
+  other keywords already (e.g.\ \texttt{=} or \texttt{+}).
+
+  \indexoutertoken{type}\indexoutertoken{term}\indexoutertoken{prop}
+  \begin{rail}
+    type: nameref | typefree | typevar
+    ;
+    term: nameref | var
+    ;
+    prop: term
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Positional instantiations are indicated by giving a sequence of
+  terms, or the placeholder ``$\_$'' (underscore), which means to skip
+  a position.
+
+  \indexoutertoken{inst}\indexoutertoken{insts}
+  \begin{rail}
+    inst: underscore | term
+    ;
+    insts: (inst *)
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Type declarations and definitions usually refer to
+  \railnonterm{typespec} on the left-hand side.  This models basic
+  type constructor application at the outer syntax level.  Note that
+  only plain postfix notation is available here, but no infixes.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{typespec}
+  \begin{rail}
+    typespec: (() | typefree | '(' ( typefree + ',' ) ')') name
+    ;
+  \end{rail}%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Mixfix annotations%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+Mixfix annotations specify concrete \emph{inner} syntax of Isabelle
+  types and terms.  Some commands such as \isa{types} (see
+  \S\ref{sec:types-pure}) admit infixes only, while \isa{consts} (see \S\ref{sec:consts}) and \isa{syntax} (see
+  \S\ref{sec:syn-trans}) support the full range of general mixfixes
+  and binders.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{infix}\indexouternonterm{mixfix}\indexouternonterm{structmixfix}
+  \begin{rail}
+    infix: '(' ('infix' | 'infixl' | 'infixr') string? nat ')'
+    ;
+    mixfix: infix | '(' string prios? nat? ')' | '(' 'binder' string prios? nat ')'
+    ;
+    structmixfix: mixfix | '(' 'structure' ')'
+    ;
+
+    prios: '[' (nat + ',') ']'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Here the \railtok{string} specifications refer to the actual mixfix
+  template (see also \cite{isabelle-ref}), which may include literal
+  text, spacing, blocks, and arguments (denoted by ``$_$''); the
+  special symbol \verb,\<index>, (printed as ``\i'') represents an index
+  argument that specifies an implicit structure reference (see also
+  \S\ref{sec:locale}).  Infix and binder declarations provide common
+  abbreviations for particular mixfix declarations.  So in practice,
+  mixfix templates mostly degenerate to literal text for concrete
+  syntax, such as ``\verb,++,'' for an infix symbol, or
+  ``\verb,++,\i'' for an infix of an implicit structure.%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Proof methods \label{sec:syn-meth}%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+Proof methods are either basic ones, or expressions composed of
+  methods via ``\texttt{,}'' (sequential composition), ``\texttt{|}''
+  (alternative choices), ``\texttt{?}'' (try), ``\texttt{+}'' (repeat
+  at least once), ``\texttt{[$n$]}'' (restriction to first \isa{n}
+  sub-goals, default $n = 1$).  In practice, proof methods are usually
+  just a comma separated list of \railqtok{nameref}~\railnonterm{args}
+  specifications.  Note that parentheses may be dropped for single
+  method specifications (with no arguments).
+
+  \indexouternonterm{method}
+  \begin{rail}
+    method: (nameref | '(' methods ')') (() | '?' | '+' | '[' nat? ']')
+    ;
+    methods: (nameref args | method) + (',' | '|')
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Proper Isar proof methods do \emph{not} admit arbitrary goal
+  addressing, but refer either to the first sub-goal or all sub-goals
+  uniformly.  The goal restriction operator ``\texttt{[$n$]}''
+  evaluates a method expression within a sandbox consisting of the
+  first \isa{n} sub-goals (which need to exist).  For example,
+  \isa{simp{\isacharunderscore}all{\isacharbrackleft}{\isadigit{3}}{\isacharbrackright}} simplifies the first three sub-goals, while
+  \isa{{\isacharparenleft}rule\ foo{\isacharcomma}\ simp{\isacharunderscore}all{\isacharparenright}{\isacharbrackleft}{\isacharbrackright}} simplifies all new goals that
+  emerge from applying rule \isa{foo} to the originally first one.
+
+  Improper methods, notably tactic emulations, offer a separate
+  low-level goal addressing scheme as explicit argument to the
+  individual tactic being involved.  Here \isa{{\isacharbrackleft}{\isacharbang}{\isacharbrackright}} refers to all
+  goals, and \isa{{\isacharbrackleft}n{\isacharminus}{\isacharbrackright}} to all goals starting from \isa{n},
+
+  \indexouternonterm{goalspec}
+  \begin{rail}
+    goalspec: '[' (nat '-' nat | nat '-' | nat | '!' ) ']'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Attributes and theorems \label{sec:syn-att}%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+Attributes (and proof methods, see \S\ref{sec:syn-meth}) have their
+  own ``semi-inner'' syntax, in the sense that input conforming to
+  \railnonterm{args} below is parsed by the attribute a second time.
+  The attribute argument specifications may be any sequence of atomic
+  entities (identifiers, strings etc.), or properly bracketed argument
+  lists.  Below \railqtok{atom} refers to any atomic entity, including
+  any \railtok{keyword} conforming to \railtok{symident}.
+
+  \indexoutertoken{atom}\indexouternonterm{args}\indexouternonterm{attributes}
+  \begin{rail}
+    atom: nameref | typefree | typevar | var | nat | keyword
+    ;
+    arg: atom | '(' args ')' | '[' args ']'
+    ;
+    args: arg *
+    ;
+    attributes: '[' (nameref args * ',') ']'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Theorem specifications come in several flavors:
+  \railnonterm{axmdecl} and \railnonterm{thmdecl} usually refer to
+  axioms, assumptions or results of goal statements, while
+  \railnonterm{thmdef} collects lists of existing theorems.  Existing
+  theorems are given by \railnonterm{thmref} and
+  \railnonterm{thmrefs}, the former requires an actual singleton
+  result.
+
+  There are three forms of theorem references:
+  \begin{enumerate}
+  
+  \item named facts \isa{a}
+
+  \item selections from named facts \isa{a{\isacharparenleft}i{\isacharcomma}\ j\ {\isacharminus}\ k{\isacharparenright}}
+
+  \item literal fact propositions using \indexref{}{syntax}{altstring}\isa{altstring} syntax
+  $\backquote\phi\backquote$, (see also method \indexref{}{method}{fact}\isa{fact} in
+  \S\ref{sec:pure-meth-att}).
+
+  \end{enumerate}
+
+  Any kind of theorem specification may include lists of attributes
+  both on the left and right hand sides; attributes are applied to any
+  immediately preceding fact.  If names are omitted, the theorems are
+  not stored within the theorem database of the theory or proof
+  context, but any given attributes are applied nonetheless.
+
+  An extra pair of brackets around attribute declarations --- such as
+  ``\isa{{\isacharbrackleft}{\isacharbrackleft}simproc\ a{\isacharbrackright}{\isacharbrackright}}'' --- abbreviates a theorem reference
+  involving an internal dummy fact, which will be ignored later on.
+  So only the effect of the attribute on the background context will
+  persist.  This form of in-place declarations is particularly useful
+  with commands like \isa{declare} and \isa{using}.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{axmdecl}\indexouternonterm{thmdecl}
+  \indexouternonterm{thmdef}\indexouternonterm{thmref}
+  \indexouternonterm{thmrefs}\indexouternonterm{selection}
+  \begin{rail}
+    axmdecl: name attributes? ':'
+    ;
+    thmdecl: thmbind ':'
+    ;
+    thmdef: thmbind '='
+    ;
+    thmref: (nameref selection? | altstring) attributes? | '[' attributes ']'
+    ;
+    thmrefs: thmref +
+    ;
+
+    thmbind: name attributes | name | attributes
+    ;
+    selection: '(' ((nat | nat '-' nat?) + ',') ')'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Term patterns and declarations \label{sec:term-decls}%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+Wherever explicit propositions (or term fragments) occur in a proof
+  text, casual binding of schematic term variables may be given
+  specified via patterns of the form ``\isa{{\isacharparenleft}{\isasymIS}\ p\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ p\isactrlsub n{\isacharparenright}}''.  This works both for \railqtok{term} and \railqtok{prop}.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{termpat}\indexouternonterm{proppat}
+  \begin{rail}
+    termpat: '(' ('is' term +) ')'
+    ;
+    proppat: '(' ('is' prop +) ')'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  \medskip Declarations of local variables \isa{x\ {\isacharcolon}{\isacharcolon}\ {\isasymtau}} and
+  logical propositions \isa{a\ {\isacharcolon}\ {\isasymphi}} represent different views on
+  the same principle of introducing a local scope.  In practice, one
+  may usually omit the typing of \railnonterm{vars} (due to
+  type-inference), and the naming of propositions (due to implicit
+  references of current facts).  In any case, Isar proof elements
+  usually admit to introduce multiple such items simultaneously.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{vars}\indexouternonterm{props}
+  \begin{rail}
+    vars: (name+) ('::' type)?
+    ;
+    props: thmdecl? (prop proppat? +)
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  The treatment of multiple declarations corresponds to the
+  complementary focus of \railnonterm{vars} versus
+  \railnonterm{props}.  In ``\isa{x\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ x\isactrlsub n\ {\isacharcolon}{\isacharcolon}\ {\isasymtau}}''
+  the typing refers to all variables, while in \isa{a{\isacharcolon}\ {\isasymphi}\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ {\isasymphi}\isactrlsub n} the naming refers to all propositions collectively.
+  Isar language elements that refer to \railnonterm{vars} or
+  \railnonterm{props} typically admit separate typings or namings via
+  another level of iteration, with explicit \indexref{}{keyword}{and}\isa{and}
+  separators; e.g.\ see \isa{fix} and \isa{assume} in
+  \S\ref{sec:proof-context}.%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Antiquotations \label{sec:antiq}%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+\begin{matharray}{rcl}
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{theory}\isa{theory} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{thm}\isa{thm} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{prop}\isa{prop} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{term}\isa{term} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{const}\isa{const} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{abbrev}\isa{abbrev} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{typeof}\isa{typeof} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{typ}\isa{typ} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{thm-style}\isa{thm{\isacharunderscore}style} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{term-style}\isa{term{\isacharunderscore}style} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{text}\isa{text} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{goals}\isa{goals} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{subgoals}\isa{subgoals} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{prf}\isa{prf} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{full-prf}\isa{full{\isacharunderscore}prf} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{ML}\isa{ML} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{ML-type}\isa{ML{\isacharunderscore}type} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    \indexdef{}{antiquotation}{ML-struct}\isa{ML{\isacharunderscore}struct} & : & \isarantiq \\
+  \end{matharray}
+
+  The text body of formal comments (see also \S\ref{sec:comments}) may
+  contain antiquotations of logical entities, such as theorems, terms
+  and types, which are to be presented in the final output produced by
+  the Isabelle document preparation system (see also
+  \S\ref{sec:document-prep}).
+
+  Thus embedding of ``\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}term\ {\isacharbrackleft}show{\isacharunderscore}types{\isacharbrackright}\ {\isachardoublequote}f\ x\ {\isacharequal}\ a\ {\isacharplus}\ x{\isachardoublequote}{\isacharbraceright}}''
+  within a text block would cause
+  \isa{{\isacharparenleft}f{\isasymColon}{\isacharprime}a\ {\isasymRightarrow}\ {\isacharprime}a{\isacharparenright}\ {\isacharparenleft}x{\isasymColon}{\isacharprime}a{\isacharparenright}\ {\isacharequal}\ {\isacharparenleft}a{\isasymColon}{\isacharprime}a{\isacharparenright}\ {\isacharplus}\ x} to appear in the final {\LaTeX} document.  Also note that theorem
+  antiquotations may involve attributes as well.  For example,
+  \texttt{{\at}{\ttlbrace}thm~sym~[no_vars]{\ttrbrace}} would print
+  the statement where all schematic variables have been replaced by
+  fixed ones, which are easier to read.
+
+  \begin{rail}
+    atsign lbrace antiquotation rbrace
+    ;
+
+    antiquotation:
+      'theory' options name |
+      'thm' options thmrefs |
+      'prop' options prop |
+      'term' options term |
+      'const' options term |
+      'abbrev' options term |
+      'typeof' options term |
+      'typ' options type |
+      'thm\_style' options name thmref |
+      'term\_style' options name term |
+      'text' options name |
+      'goals' options |
+      'subgoals' options |
+      'prf' options thmrefs |
+      'full\_prf' options thmrefs |
+      'ML' options name |
+      'ML\_type' options name |
+      'ML\_struct' options name
+    ;
+    options: '[' (option * ',') ']'
+    ;
+    option: name | name '=' name
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Note that the syntax of antiquotations may \emph{not} include source
+  comments \texttt{(*~\dots~*)} or verbatim text
+  \verb|{*|~\dots~\verb|*|\verb|}|.
+
+  \begin{descr}
+  
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}theory\ A{\isacharbraceright}}] prints the name \isa{A}, which is
+  guaranteed to refer to a valid ancestor theory in the current
+  context.
+
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}thm\ a\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ a\isactrlsub n{\isacharbraceright}}] prints theorems \isa{a\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ a\isactrlsub n}.  Note that attribute specifications may be
+  included as well (see also \S\ref{sec:syn-att}); the \indexref{}{attribute}{no-vars}\isa{no{\isacharunderscore}vars} rule (see \S\ref{sec:misc-meth-att}) would be particularly
+  useful to suppress printing of schematic variables.
+
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}prop\ {\isasymphi}{\isacharbraceright}}] prints a well-typed proposition \isa{{\isasymphi}}.
+
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}term\ t{\isacharbraceright}}] prints a well-typed term \isa{t}.
+
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}const\ c{\isacharbraceright}}] prints a logical or syntactic constant
+  \isa{c}.
+  
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}abbrev\ c\ x\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ x\isactrlsub n{\isacharbraceright}}] prints a constant
+  abbreviation \isa{c\ x\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ x\isactrlsub n\ {\isasymequiv}\ rhs} as defined in
+  the current context.
+
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}typeof\ t{\isacharbraceright}}] prints the type of a well-typed term
+  \isa{t}.
+
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}typ\ {\isasymtau}{\isacharbraceright}}] prints a well-formed type \isa{{\isasymtau}}.
+  
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}thm{\isacharunderscore}style\ s\ a{\isacharbraceright}}] prints theorem \isa{a},
+  previously applying a style \isa{s} to it (see below).
+  
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}term{\isacharunderscore}style\ s\ t{\isacharbraceright}}] prints a well-typed term \isa{t} after applying a style \isa{s} to it (see below).
+
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}text\ s{\isacharbraceright}}] prints uninterpreted source text \isa{s}.  This is particularly useful to print portions of text according
+  to the Isabelle {\LaTeX} output style, without demanding
+  well-formedness (e.g.\ small pieces of terms that should not be
+  parsed or type-checked yet).
+
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}goals{\isacharbraceright}}] prints the current \emph{dynamic} goal
+  state.  This is mainly for support of tactic-emulation scripts
+  within Isar --- presentation of goal states does not conform to
+  actual human-readable proof documents.
+
+  Please do not include goal states into document output unless you
+  really know what you are doing!
+  
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}subgoals{\isacharbraceright}}] is similar to \isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}goals{\isacharbraceright}}, but
+  does not print the main goal.
+  
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}prf\ a\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ a\isactrlsub n{\isacharbraceright}}] prints the (compact)
+  proof terms corresponding to the theorems \isa{a\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ a\isactrlsub n}. Note that this requires proof terms to be switched on
+  for the current object logic (see the ``Proof terms'' section of the
+  Isabelle reference manual for information on how to do this).
+  
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}full{\isacharunderscore}prf\ a\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ a\isactrlsub n{\isacharbraceright}}] is like \isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}prf\ a\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymdots}\ a\isactrlsub n{\isacharbraceright}}, but displays the full proof terms,
+  i.e.\ also displays information omitted in the compact proof term,
+  which is denoted by ``$_$'' placeholders there.
+  
+  \item [\isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}ML\ s{\isacharbraceright}}, \isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}ML{\isacharunderscore}type\ s{\isacharbraceright}}, and \isa{{\isacharat}{\isacharbraceleft}ML{\isacharunderscore}struct\ s{\isacharbraceright}}] check text \isa{s} as ML value, type, and
+  structure, respectively.  The source is displayed verbatim.
+
+  \end{descr}
+
+  \medskip The following standard styles for use with \isa{thm{\isacharunderscore}style} and \isa{term{\isacharunderscore}style} are available:
+
+  \begin{descr}
+  
+  \item [\isa{lhs}] extracts the first argument of any application
+  form with at least two arguments -- typically meta-level or
+  object-level equality, or any other binary relation.
+  
+  \item [\isa{rhs}] is like \isa{lhs}, but extracts the second
+  argument.
+  
+  \item [\isa{concl}] extracts the conclusion \isa{C} from a rule
+  in Horn-clause normal form \isa{A\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymLongrightarrow}\ {\isasymdots}\ A\isactrlsub n\ {\isasymLongrightarrow}\ C}.
+  
+  \item [\isa{prem{\isadigit{1}}}, \dots, \isa{prem{\isadigit{9}}}] extract premise
+  number $1$, \dots, $9$, respectively, from from a rule in
+  Horn-clause normal form \isa{A\isactrlsub {\isadigit{1}}\ {\isasymLongrightarrow}\ {\isasymdots}\ A\isactrlsub n\ {\isasymLongrightarrow}\ C}
+
+  \end{descr}
+
+  \medskip
+  The following options are available to tune the output.  Note that most of
+  these coincide with ML flags of the same names (see also \cite{isabelle-ref}).
+
+  \begin{descr}
+
+  \item[\isa{show{\isacharunderscore}types\ {\isacharequal}\ bool} and \isa{show{\isacharunderscore}sorts\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}]
+  control printing of explicit type and sort constraints.
+
+  \item[\isa{show{\isacharunderscore}structs\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}] controls printing of implicit
+  structures.
+
+  \item[\isa{long{\isacharunderscore}names\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}] forces names of types and
+  constants etc.\ to be printed in their fully qualified internal
+  form.
+
+  \item[\isa{short{\isacharunderscore}names\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}] forces names of types and
+  constants etc.\ to be printed unqualified.  Note that internalizing
+  the output again in the current context may well yield a different
+  result.
+
+  \item[\isa{unique{\isacharunderscore}names\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}] determines whether the printed
+  version of qualified names should be made sufficiently long to avoid
+  overlap with names declared further back.  Set to \isa{false} for
+  more concise output.
+
+  \item[\isa{eta{\isacharunderscore}contract\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}] prints terms in \isa{{\isasymeta}}-contracted form.
+
+  \item[\isa{display\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}] indicates if the text is to be
+  output as multi-line ``display material'', rather than a small piece
+  of text without line breaks (which is the default).
+
+  \item[\isa{break\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}] controls line breaks in non-display
+  material.
+
+  \item[\isa{quotes\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}] indicates if the output should be
+  enclosed in double quotes.
+
+  \item[\isa{mode\ {\isacharequal}\ name}] adds \isa{name} to the print mode to
+  be used for presentation (see also \cite{isabelle-ref}).  Note that
+  the standard setup for {\LaTeX} output is already present by
+  default, including the modes \isa{latex} and \isa{xsymbols}.
+
+  \item[\isa{margin\ {\isacharequal}\ nat} and \isa{indent\ {\isacharequal}\ nat}] change the
+  margin or indentation for pretty printing of display material.
+
+  \item[\isa{source\ {\isacharequal}\ bool}] prints the source text of the
+  antiquotation arguments, rather than the actual value.  Note that
+  this does not affect well-formedness checks of \isa{thm}, \isa{term}, etc. (only the \isa{text} antiquotation admits arbitrary output).
+
+  \item[\isa{goals{\isacharunderscore}limit\ {\isacharequal}\ nat}] determines the maximum number of
+  goals to be printed.
+
+  \item[\isa{locale\ {\isacharequal}\ name}] specifies an alternative locale
+  context used for evaluating and printing the subsequent argument.
+
+  \end{descr}
+
+  For boolean flags, ``\isa{name\ {\isacharequal}\ true}'' may be abbreviated as
+  ``\isa{name}''.  All of the above flags are disabled by default,
+  unless changed from ML.
+
+  \medskip Note that antiquotations do not only spare the author from
+  tedious typing of logical entities, but also achieve some degree of
+  consistency-checking of informal explanations with formal
+  developments: well-formedness of terms and types with respect to the
+  current theory or proof context is ensured here.%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isamarkupsubsection{Tagged commands \label{sec:tags}%
+}
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\begin{isamarkuptext}%
+Each Isabelle/Isar command may be decorated by presentation tags:
+
+  \indexouternonterm{tags}
+  \begin{rail}
+    tags: ( tag * )
+    ;
+    tag: '\%' (ident | string)
+  \end{rail}
+
+  The tags \isa{theory}, \isa{proof}, \isa{ML} are already
+  pre-declared for certain classes of commands:
+
+ \medskip
+
+  \begin{tabular}{ll}
+    \isa{theory} & theory begin/end \\
+    \isa{proof} & all proof commands \\
+    \isa{ML} & all commands involving ML code \\
+  \end{tabular}
+
+  \medskip The Isabelle document preparation system (see also
+  \cite{isabelle-sys}) allows tagged command regions to be presented
+  specifically, e.g.\ to fold proof texts, or drop parts of the text
+  completely.
+
+  For example ``\isa{by}~\isa{{\isacharpercent}invisible\ auto}'' would
+  cause that piece of proof to be treated as \isa{invisible} instead
+  of \isa{proof} (the default), which may be either show or hidden
+  depending on the document setup.  In contrast, ``\isa{by}~\isa{{\isacharpercent}visible\ auto}'' would force this text to be shown
+  invariably.
+
+  Explicit tag specifications within a proof apply to all subsequent
+  commands of the same level of nesting.  For example, ``\isa{proof}~\isa{{\isacharpercent}visible\ {\isasymdots}}~\isa{qed}'' would force the
+  whole sub-proof to be typeset as \isa{visible} (unless some of its
+  parts are tagged differently).%
+\end{isamarkuptext}%
+\isamarkuptrue%
+%
+\isadelimtheory
+%
+\endisadelimtheory
+%
+\isatagtheory
+\isacommand{end}\isamarkupfalse%
+%
+\endisatagtheory
+{\isafoldtheory}%
+%
+\isadelimtheory
+%
+\endisadelimtheory
+\isanewline
+\end{isabellebody}%
+%%% Local Variables:
+%%% mode: latex
+%%% TeX-master: "root"
+%%% End:
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+
+theory "syntax"
+imports CPure
+begin
+
+chapter {* Syntax primitives *}
+
+text {*
+  The rather generic framework of Isabelle/Isar syntax emerges from
+  three main syntactic categories: \emph{commands} of the top-level
+  Isar engine (covering theory and proof elements), \emph{methods} for
+  general goal refinements (analogous to traditional ``tactics''), and
+  \emph{attributes} for operations on facts (within a certain
+  context).  Subsequently we give a reference of basic syntactic
+  entities underlying Isabelle/Isar syntax in a bottom-up manner.
+  Concrete theory and proof language elements will be introduced later
+  on.
+
+  \medskip In order to get started with writing well-formed
+  Isabelle/Isar documents, the most important aspect to be noted is
+  the difference of \emph{inner} versus \emph{outer} syntax.  Inner
+  syntax is that of Isabelle types and terms of the logic, while outer
+  syntax is that of Isabelle/Isar theory sources (specifications and
+  proofs).  As a general rule, inner syntax entities may occur only as
+  \emph{atomic entities} within outer syntax.  For example, the string
+  \texttt{"x + y"} and identifier \texttt{z} are legal term
+  specifications within a theory, while \texttt{x + y} is not.
+
+  Printed theory documents usually omit quotes to gain readability
+  (this is a matter of {\LaTeX} macro setup, say via
+  \verb,\isabellestyle,, see also \cite{isabelle-sys}).  Experienced
+  users of Isabelle/Isar may easily reconstruct the lost technical
+  information, while mere readers need not care about quotes at all.
+
+  \medskip Isabelle/Isar input may contain any number of input
+  termination characters ``\texttt{;}'' (semicolon) to separate
+  commands explicitly.  This is particularly useful in interactive
+  shell sessions to make clear where the current command is intended
+  to end.  Otherwise, the interpreter loop will continue to issue a
+  secondary prompt ``\verb,#,'' until an end-of-command is clearly
+  recognized from the input syntax, e.g.\ encounter of the next
+  command keyword.
+
+  More advanced interfaces such as Proof~General \cite{proofgeneral}
+  do not require explicit semicolons, the amount of input text is
+  determined automatically by inspecting the present content of the
+  Emacs text buffer.  In the printed presentation of Isabelle/Isar
+  documents semicolons are omitted altogether for readability.
+
+  \begin{warn}
+    Proof~General requires certain syntax classification tables in
+    order to achieve properly synchronized interaction with the
+    Isabelle/Isar process.  These tables need to be consistent with
+    the Isabelle version and particular logic image to be used in a
+    running session (common object-logics may well change the outer
+    syntax).  The standard setup should work correctly with any of the
+    ``official'' logic images derived from Isabelle/HOL (including
+    HOLCF etc.).  Users of alternative logics may need to tell
+    Proof~General explicitly, e.g.\ by giving an option \verb,-k ZF,
+    (in conjunction with \verb,-l ZF, to specify the default logic
+    image).
+  \end{warn}
+*}
+
+
+section {* Lexical matters \label{sec:lex-syntax} *}
+
+text {*
+  The Isabelle/Isar outer syntax provides token classes as presented
+  below; most of these coincide with the inner lexical syntax as
+  presented in \cite{isabelle-ref}.
+
+  \begin{matharray}{rcl}
+    @{syntax_def ident} & = & letter\,quasiletter^* \\
+    @{syntax_def longident} & = & ident (\verb,.,ident)^+ \\
+    @{syntax_def symident} & = & sym^+ ~|~ \verb,\,\verb,<,ident\verb,>, \\
+    @{syntax_def nat} & = & digit^+ \\
+    @{syntax_def var} & = & ident ~|~ \verb,?,ident ~|~ \verb,?,ident\verb,.,nat \\
+    @{syntax_def typefree} & = & \verb,',ident \\
+    @{syntax_def typevar} & = & typefree ~|~ \verb,?,typefree ~|~ \verb,?,typefree\verb,.,nat \\
+    @{syntax_def string} & = & \verb,", ~\dots~ \verb,", \\
+    @{syntax_def altstring} & = & \backquote ~\dots~ \backquote \\
+    @{syntax_def verbatim} & = & \verb,{*, ~\dots~ \verb,*,\verb,}, \\[1ex]
+
+    letter & = & latin ~|~ \verb,\,\verb,<,latin\verb,>, ~|~ \verb,\,\verb,<,latin\,latin\verb,>, ~|~ greek ~|~ \\
+           &   & \verb,\<^isub>, ~|~ \verb,\<^isup>, \\
+    quasiletter & = & letter ~|~ digit ~|~ \verb,_, ~|~ \verb,', \\
+    latin & = & \verb,a, ~|~ \dots ~|~ \verb,z, ~|~ \verb,A, ~|~ \dots ~|~ \verb,Z, \\
+    digit & = & \verb,0, ~|~ \dots ~|~ \verb,9, \\
+    sym & = & \verb,!, ~|~ \verb,#, ~|~ \verb,$, ~|~ \verb,%, ~|~ \verb,&, ~|~
+     \verb,*, ~|~ \verb,+, ~|~ \verb,-, ~|~ \verb,/, ~|~ \\
+    & & \verb,<, ~|~ \verb,=, ~|~ \verb,>, ~|~ \verb,?, ~|~ \texttt{\at} ~|~
+    \verb,^, ~|~ \verb,_, ~|~ \verb,|, ~|~ \verb,~, \\
+    greek & = & \verb,\<alpha>, ~|~ \verb,\<beta>, ~|~ \verb,\<gamma>, ~|~ \verb,\<delta>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<epsilon>, ~|~ \verb,\<zeta>, ~|~ \verb,\<eta>, ~|~ \verb,\<theta>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<iota>, ~|~ \verb,\<kappa>, ~|~ \verb,\<mu>, ~|~ \verb,\<nu>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<xi>, ~|~ \verb,\<pi>, ~|~ \verb,\<rho>, ~|~ \verb,\<sigma>, ~|~ \verb,\<tau>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<upsilon>, ~|~ \verb,\<phi>, ~|~ \verb,\<chi>, ~|~ \verb,\<psi>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<omega>, ~|~ \verb,\<Gamma>, ~|~ \verb,\<Delta>, ~|~ \verb,\<Theta>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<Lambda>, ~|~ \verb,\<Xi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Pi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Sigma>, ~| \\
+          &   & \verb,\<Upsilon>, ~|~ \verb,\<Phi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Psi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Omega>, \\
+  \end{matharray}
+
+  The syntax of @{syntax string} admits any characters, including
+  newlines; ``\verb|"|'' (double-quote) and ``\verb|\|'' (backslash)
+  need to be escaped by a backslash; arbitrary character codes may be
+  specified as ``\verb|\|$ddd$'', with 3 decimal digits.  Alternative
+  strings according to @{syntax altstring} are analogous, using single
+  back-quotes instead.  The body of @{syntax verbatim} may consist of
+  any text not containing ``\verb,*,\verb,},''; this allows convenient
+  inclusion of quotes without further escapes.  The greek letters do
+  \emph{not} include \verb,\<lambda>,, which is already used differently in
+  the meta-logic.
+
+  Common mathematical symbols such as @{text \<forall>} are represented in
+  Isabelle as \verb,\<forall>,.  There are infinitely many Isabelle symbols
+  like this, although proper presentation is left to front-end tools
+  such as {\LaTeX} or Proof~General with the X-Symbol package.  A list
+  of standard Isabelle symbols that work well with these tools is
+  given in \cite[appendix~A]{isabelle-sys}.
+  
+  Source comments take the form \texttt{(*~\dots~*)} and may be
+  nested, although user-interface tools might prevent this.  Note that
+  \texttt{(*~\dots~*)} indicate source comments only, which are
+  stripped after lexical analysis of the input.  The Isar document
+  syntax also provides formal comments that are considered as part of
+  the text (see \S\ref{sec:comments}).
+*}
+
+
+section {* Common syntax entities *}
+
+text {*
+  We now introduce several basic syntactic entities, such as names,
+  terms, and theorem specifications, which are factored out of the
+  actual Isar language elements to be described later.
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Names *}
+
+text {*
+  Entity \railqtok{name} usually refers to any name of types,
+  constants, theorems etc.\ that are to be \emph{declared} or
+  \emph{defined} (so qualified identifiers are excluded here).  Quoted
+  strings provide an escape for non-identifier names or those ruled
+  out by outer syntax keywords (e.g.\ \verb|"let"|).  Already existing
+  objects are usually referenced by \railqtok{nameref}.
+
+  \indexoutertoken{name}\indexoutertoken{parname}\indexoutertoken{nameref}
+  \indexoutertoken{int}
+  \begin{rail}
+    name: ident | symident | string | nat
+    ;
+    parname: '(' name ')'
+    ;
+    nameref: name | longident
+    ;
+    int: nat | '-' nat
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Comments \label{sec:comments} *}
+
+text {*
+  Large chunks of plain \railqtok{text} are usually given
+  \railtok{verbatim}, i.e.\ enclosed in
+  \verb,{,\verb,*,~\dots~\verb,*,\verb,},.  For convenience, any of
+  the smaller text units conforming to \railqtok{nameref} are admitted
+  as well.  A marginal \railnonterm{comment} is of the form
+  \texttt{--} \railqtok{text}.  Any number of these may occur within
+  Isabelle/Isar commands.
+
+  \indexoutertoken{text}\indexouternonterm{comment}
+  \begin{rail}
+    text: verbatim | nameref
+    ;
+    comment: '--' text
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Type classes, sorts and arities *}
+
+text {*
+  Classes are specified by plain names.  Sorts have a very simple
+  inner syntax, which is either a single class name @{text c} or a
+  list @{text "{c\<^sub>1, \<dots>, c\<^sub>n}"} referring to the
+  intersection of these classes.  The syntax of type arities is given
+  directly at the outer level.
+
+  \railalias{subseteq}{\isasymsubseteq}
+  \railterm{subseteq}
+
+  \indexouternonterm{sort}\indexouternonterm{arity}
+  \indexouternonterm{classdecl}
+  \begin{rail}
+    classdecl: name (('<' | subseteq) (nameref + ','))?
+    ;
+    sort: nameref
+    ;
+    arity: ('(' (sort + ',') ')')? sort
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Types and terms \label{sec:types-terms} *}
+
+text {*
+  The actual inner Isabelle syntax, that of types and terms of the
+  logic, is far too sophisticated in order to be modelled explicitly
+  at the outer theory level.  Basically, any such entity has to be
+  quoted to turn it into a single token (the parsing and type-checking
+  is performed internally later).  For convenience, a slightly more
+  liberal convention is adopted: quotes may be omitted for any type or
+  term that is already atomic at the outer level.  For example, one
+  may just write \texttt{x} instead of \texttt{"x"}.  Note that
+  symbolic identifiers (e.g.\ \texttt{++} or @{text "\<forall>"} are available
+  as well, provided these have not been superseded by commands or
+  other keywords already (e.g.\ \texttt{=} or \texttt{+}).
+
+  \indexoutertoken{type}\indexoutertoken{term}\indexoutertoken{prop}
+  \begin{rail}
+    type: nameref | typefree | typevar
+    ;
+    term: nameref | var
+    ;
+    prop: term
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Positional instantiations are indicated by giving a sequence of
+  terms, or the placeholder ``$\_$'' (underscore), which means to skip
+  a position.
+
+  \indexoutertoken{inst}\indexoutertoken{insts}
+  \begin{rail}
+    inst: underscore | term
+    ;
+    insts: (inst *)
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Type declarations and definitions usually refer to
+  \railnonterm{typespec} on the left-hand side.  This models basic
+  type constructor application at the outer syntax level.  Note that
+  only plain postfix notation is available here, but no infixes.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{typespec}
+  \begin{rail}
+    typespec: (() | typefree | '(' ( typefree + ',' ) ')') name
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Mixfix annotations *}
+
+text {*
+  Mixfix annotations specify concrete \emph{inner} syntax of Isabelle
+  types and terms.  Some commands such as @{command "types"} (see
+  \S\ref{sec:types-pure}) admit infixes only, while @{command
+  "consts"} (see \S\ref{sec:consts}) and @{command "syntax"} (see
+  \S\ref{sec:syn-trans}) support the full range of general mixfixes
+  and binders.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{infix}\indexouternonterm{mixfix}\indexouternonterm{structmixfix}
+  \begin{rail}
+    infix: '(' ('infix' | 'infixl' | 'infixr') string? nat ')'
+    ;
+    mixfix: infix | '(' string prios? nat? ')' | '(' 'binder' string prios? nat ')'
+    ;
+    structmixfix: mixfix | '(' 'structure' ')'
+    ;
+
+    prios: '[' (nat + ',') ']'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Here the \railtok{string} specifications refer to the actual mixfix
+  template (see also \cite{isabelle-ref}), which may include literal
+  text, spacing, blocks, and arguments (denoted by ``$_$''); the
+  special symbol \verb,\<index>, (printed as ``\i'') represents an index
+  argument that specifies an implicit structure reference (see also
+  \S\ref{sec:locale}).  Infix and binder declarations provide common
+  abbreviations for particular mixfix declarations.  So in practice,
+  mixfix templates mostly degenerate to literal text for concrete
+  syntax, such as ``\verb,++,'' for an infix symbol, or
+  ``\verb,++,\i'' for an infix of an implicit structure.
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Proof methods \label{sec:syn-meth} *}
+
+text {*
+  Proof methods are either basic ones, or expressions composed of
+  methods via ``\texttt{,}'' (sequential composition), ``\texttt{|}''
+  (alternative choices), ``\texttt{?}'' (try), ``\texttt{+}'' (repeat
+  at least once), ``\texttt{[$n$]}'' (restriction to first @{text n}
+  sub-goals, default $n = 1$).  In practice, proof methods are usually
+  just a comma separated list of \railqtok{nameref}~\railnonterm{args}
+  specifications.  Note that parentheses may be dropped for single
+  method specifications (with no arguments).
+
+  \indexouternonterm{method}
+  \begin{rail}
+    method: (nameref | '(' methods ')') (() | '?' | '+' | '[' nat? ']')
+    ;
+    methods: (nameref args | method) + (',' | '|')
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Proper Isar proof methods do \emph{not} admit arbitrary goal
+  addressing, but refer either to the first sub-goal or all sub-goals
+  uniformly.  The goal restriction operator ``\texttt{[$n$]}''
+  evaluates a method expression within a sandbox consisting of the
+  first @{text n} sub-goals (which need to exist).  For example,
+  @{text "simp_all[3]"} simplifies the first three sub-goals, while
+  @{text "(rule foo, simp_all)[]"} simplifies all new goals that
+  emerge from applying rule @{text "foo"} to the originally first one.
+
+  Improper methods, notably tactic emulations, offer a separate
+  low-level goal addressing scheme as explicit argument to the
+  individual tactic being involved.  Here @{text "[!]"} refers to all
+  goals, and @{text "[n-]"} to all goals starting from @{text "n"},
+
+  \indexouternonterm{goalspec}
+  \begin{rail}
+    goalspec: '[' (nat '-' nat | nat '-' | nat | '!' ) ']'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Attributes and theorems \label{sec:syn-att} *}
+
+text {*
+  Attributes (and proof methods, see \S\ref{sec:syn-meth}) have their
+  own ``semi-inner'' syntax, in the sense that input conforming to
+  \railnonterm{args} below is parsed by the attribute a second time.
+  The attribute argument specifications may be any sequence of atomic
+  entities (identifiers, strings etc.), or properly bracketed argument
+  lists.  Below \railqtok{atom} refers to any atomic entity, including
+  any \railtok{keyword} conforming to \railtok{symident}.
+
+  \indexoutertoken{atom}\indexouternonterm{args}\indexouternonterm{attributes}
+  \begin{rail}
+    atom: nameref | typefree | typevar | var | nat | keyword
+    ;
+    arg: atom | '(' args ')' | '[' args ']'
+    ;
+    args: arg *
+    ;
+    attributes: '[' (nameref args * ',') ']'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Theorem specifications come in several flavors:
+  \railnonterm{axmdecl} and \railnonterm{thmdecl} usually refer to
+  axioms, assumptions or results of goal statements, while
+  \railnonterm{thmdef} collects lists of existing theorems.  Existing
+  theorems are given by \railnonterm{thmref} and
+  \railnonterm{thmrefs}, the former requires an actual singleton
+  result.
+
+  There are three forms of theorem references:
+  \begin{enumerate}
+  
+  \item named facts @{text "a"}
+
+  \item selections from named facts @{text "a(i, j - k)"}
+
+  \item literal fact propositions using @{syntax_ref altstring} syntax
+  $\backquote\phi\backquote$, (see also method @{method_ref fact} in
+  \S\ref{sec:pure-meth-att}).
+
+  \end{enumerate}
+
+  Any kind of theorem specification may include lists of attributes
+  both on the left and right hand sides; attributes are applied to any
+  immediately preceding fact.  If names are omitted, the theorems are
+  not stored within the theorem database of the theory or proof
+  context, but any given attributes are applied nonetheless.
+
+  An extra pair of brackets around attribute declarations --- such as
+  ``@{text "[[simproc a]]"}'' --- abbreviates a theorem reference
+  involving an internal dummy fact, which will be ignored later on.
+  So only the effect of the attribute on the background context will
+  persist.  This form of in-place declarations is particularly useful
+  with commands like @{command "declare"} and @{command "using"}.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{axmdecl}\indexouternonterm{thmdecl}
+  \indexouternonterm{thmdef}\indexouternonterm{thmref}
+  \indexouternonterm{thmrefs}\indexouternonterm{selection}
+  \begin{rail}
+    axmdecl: name attributes? ':'
+    ;
+    thmdecl: thmbind ':'
+    ;
+    thmdef: thmbind '='
+    ;
+    thmref: (nameref selection? | altstring) attributes? | '[' attributes ']'
+    ;
+    thmrefs: thmref +
+    ;
+
+    thmbind: name attributes | name | attributes
+    ;
+    selection: '(' ((nat | nat '-' nat?) + ',') ')'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Term patterns and declarations \label{sec:term-decls} *}
+
+text {*
+  Wherever explicit propositions (or term fragments) occur in a proof
+  text, casual binding of schematic term variables may be given
+  specified via patterns of the form ``@{text "(\<IS> p\<^sub>1 \<dots>
+  p\<^sub>n)"}''.  This works both for \railqtok{term} and \railqtok{prop}.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{termpat}\indexouternonterm{proppat}
+  \begin{rail}
+    termpat: '(' ('is' term +) ')'
+    ;
+    proppat: '(' ('is' prop +) ')'
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  \medskip Declarations of local variables @{text "x :: \<tau>"} and
+  logical propositions @{text "a : \<phi>"} represent different views on
+  the same principle of introducing a local scope.  In practice, one
+  may usually omit the typing of \railnonterm{vars} (due to
+  type-inference), and the naming of propositions (due to implicit
+  references of current facts).  In any case, Isar proof elements
+  usually admit to introduce multiple such items simultaneously.
+
+  \indexouternonterm{vars}\indexouternonterm{props}
+  \begin{rail}
+    vars: (name+) ('::' type)?
+    ;
+    props: thmdecl? (prop proppat? +)
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  The treatment of multiple declarations corresponds to the
+  complementary focus of \railnonterm{vars} versus
+  \railnonterm{props}.  In ``@{text "x\<^sub>1 \<dots> x\<^sub>n :: \<tau>"}''
+  the typing refers to all variables, while in @{text "a: \<phi>\<^sub>1 \<dots>
+  \<phi>\<^sub>n"} the naming refers to all propositions collectively.
+  Isar language elements that refer to \railnonterm{vars} or
+  \railnonterm{props} typically admit separate typings or namings via
+  another level of iteration, with explicit @{keyword_ref "and"}
+  separators; e.g.\ see @{command "fix"} and @{command "assume"} in
+  \S\ref{sec:proof-context}.
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Antiquotations \label{sec:antiq} *}
+
+text {*
+  \begin{matharray}{rcl}
+    @{antiquotation_def "theory"} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def "thm"} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def "prop"} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def "term"} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def const} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def abbrev} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def typeof} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def typ} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def thm_style} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def term_style} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def "text"} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def goals} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def subgoals} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def prf} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def full_prf} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def ML} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def ML_type} & : & \isarantiq \\
+    @{antiquotation_def ML_struct} & : & \isarantiq \\
+  \end{matharray}
+
+  The text body of formal comments (see also \S\ref{sec:comments}) may
+  contain antiquotations of logical entities, such as theorems, terms
+  and types, which are to be presented in the final output produced by
+  the Isabelle document preparation system (see also
+  \S\ref{sec:document-prep}).
+
+  Thus embedding of ``@{text "@{term [show_types] \"f x = a + x\"}"}''
+  within a text block would cause
+  \isa{{\isacharparenleft}f{\isasymColon}{\isacharprime}a\ {\isasymRightarrow}\ {\isacharprime}a{\isacharparenright}\ {\isacharparenleft}x{\isasymColon}{\isacharprime}a{\isacharparenright}\ {\isacharequal}\ {\isacharparenleft}a{\isasymColon}{\isacharprime}a{\isacharparenright}\ {\isacharplus}\ x} to appear in the final {\LaTeX} document.  Also note that theorem
+  antiquotations may involve attributes as well.  For example,
+  \texttt{{\at}{\ttlbrace}thm~sym~[no_vars]{\ttrbrace}} would print
+  the statement where all schematic variables have been replaced by
+  fixed ones, which are easier to read.
+
+  \begin{rail}
+    atsign lbrace antiquotation rbrace
+    ;
+
+    antiquotation:
+      'theory' options name |
+      'thm' options thmrefs |
+      'prop' options prop |
+      'term' options term |
+      'const' options term |
+      'abbrev' options term |
+      'typeof' options term |
+      'typ' options type |
+      'thm\_style' options name thmref |
+      'term\_style' options name term |
+      'text' options name |
+      'goals' options |
+      'subgoals' options |
+      'prf' options thmrefs |
+      'full\_prf' options thmrefs |
+      'ML' options name |
+      'ML\_type' options name |
+      'ML\_struct' options name
+    ;
+    options: '[' (option * ',') ']'
+    ;
+    option: name | name '=' name
+    ;
+  \end{rail}
+
+  Note that the syntax of antiquotations may \emph{not} include source
+  comments \texttt{(*~\dots~*)} or verbatim text
+  \verb|{*|~\dots~\verb|*|\verb|}|.
+
+  \begin{descr}
+  
+  \item [@{text "@{theory A}"}] prints the name @{text "A"}, which is
+  guaranteed to refer to a valid ancestor theory in the current
+  context.
+
+  \item [@{text "@{thm a\<^sub>1 \<dots> a\<^sub>n}"}] prints theorems @{text
+  "a\<^sub>1 \<dots> a\<^sub>n"}.  Note that attribute specifications may be
+  included as well (see also \S\ref{sec:syn-att}); the @{attribute_ref
+  no_vars} rule (see \S\ref{sec:misc-meth-att}) would be particularly
+  useful to suppress printing of schematic variables.
+
+  \item [@{text "@{prop \<phi>}"}] prints a well-typed proposition @{text
+  "\<phi>"}.
+
+  \item [@{text "@{term t}"}] prints a well-typed term @{text "t"}.
+
+  \item [@{text "@{const c}"}] prints a logical or syntactic constant
+  @{text "c"}.
+  
+  \item [@{text "@{abbrev c x\<^sub>1 \<dots> x\<^sub>n}"}] prints a constant
+  abbreviation @{text "c x\<^sub>1 \<dots> x\<^sub>n \<equiv> rhs"} as defined in
+  the current context.
+
+  \item [@{text "@{typeof t}"}] prints the type of a well-typed term
+  @{text "t"}.
+
+  \item [@{text "@{typ \<tau>}"}] prints a well-formed type @{text "\<tau>"}.
+  
+  \item [@{text "@{thm_style s a}"}] prints theorem @{text a},
+  previously applying a style @{text s} to it (see below).
+  
+  \item [@{text "@{term_style s t}"}] prints a well-typed term @{text
+  t} after applying a style @{text s} to it (see below).
+
+  \item [@{text "@{text s}"}] prints uninterpreted source text @{text
+  s}.  This is particularly useful to print portions of text according
+  to the Isabelle {\LaTeX} output style, without demanding
+  well-formedness (e.g.\ small pieces of terms that should not be
+  parsed or type-checked yet).
+
+  \item [@{text "@{goals}"}] prints the current \emph{dynamic} goal
+  state.  This is mainly for support of tactic-emulation scripts
+  within Isar --- presentation of goal states does not conform to
+  actual human-readable proof documents.
+
+  Please do not include goal states into document output unless you
+  really know what you are doing!
+  
+  \item [@{text "@{subgoals}"}] is similar to @{text "@{goals}"}, but
+  does not print the main goal.
+  
+  \item [@{text "@{prf a\<^sub>1 \<dots> a\<^sub>n}"}] prints the (compact)
+  proof terms corresponding to the theorems @{text "a\<^sub>1 \<dots>
+  a\<^sub>n"}. Note that this requires proof terms to be switched on
+  for the current object logic (see the ``Proof terms'' section of the
+  Isabelle reference manual for information on how to do this).
+  
+  \item [@{text "@{full_prf a\<^sub>1 \<dots> a\<^sub>n}"}] is like @{text
+  "@{prf a\<^sub>1 \<dots> a\<^sub>n}"}, but displays the full proof terms,
+  i.e.\ also displays information omitted in the compact proof term,
+  which is denoted by ``$_$'' placeholders there.
+  
+  \item [@{text "@{ML s}"}, @{text "@{ML_type s}"}, and @{text
+  "@{ML_struct s}"}] check text @{text s} as ML value, type, and
+  structure, respectively.  The source is displayed verbatim.
+
+  \end{descr}
+
+  \medskip The following standard styles for use with @{text
+  thm_style} and @{text term_style} are available:
+
+  \begin{descr}
+  
+  \item [@{text lhs}] extracts the first argument of any application
+  form with at least two arguments -- typically meta-level or
+  object-level equality, or any other binary relation.
+  
+  \item [@{text rhs}] is like @{text lhs}, but extracts the second
+  argument.
+  
+  \item [@{text "concl"}] extracts the conclusion @{text C} from a rule
+  in Horn-clause normal form @{text "A\<^sub>1 \<Longrightarrow> \<dots> A\<^sub>n \<Longrightarrow> C"}.
+  
+  \item [@{text "prem1"}, \dots, @{text "prem9"}] extract premise
+  number $1$, \dots, $9$, respectively, from from a rule in
+  Horn-clause normal form @{text "A\<^sub>1 \<Longrightarrow> \<dots> A\<^sub>n \<Longrightarrow> C"}
+
+  \end{descr}
+
+  \medskip
+  The following options are available to tune the output.  Note that most of
+  these coincide with ML flags of the same names (see also \cite{isabelle-ref}).
+
+  \begin{descr}
+
+  \item[@{text "show_types = bool"} and @{text "show_sorts = bool"}]
+  control printing of explicit type and sort constraints.
+
+  \item[@{text "show_structs = bool"}] controls printing of implicit
+  structures.
+
+  \item[@{text "long_names = bool"}] forces names of types and
+  constants etc.\ to be printed in their fully qualified internal
+  form.
+
+  \item[@{text "short_names = bool"}] forces names of types and
+  constants etc.\ to be printed unqualified.  Note that internalizing
+  the output again in the current context may well yield a different
+  result.
+
+  \item[@{text "unique_names = bool"}] determines whether the printed
+  version of qualified names should be made sufficiently long to avoid
+  overlap with names declared further back.  Set to @{text false} for
+  more concise output.
+
+  \item[@{text "eta_contract = bool"}] prints terms in @{text
+  \<eta>}-contracted form.
+
+  \item[@{text "display = bool"}] indicates if the text is to be
+  output as multi-line ``display material'', rather than a small piece
+  of text without line breaks (which is the default).
+
+  \item[@{text "break = bool"}] controls line breaks in non-display
+  material.
+
+  \item[@{text "quotes = bool"}] indicates if the output should be
+  enclosed in double quotes.
+
+  \item[@{text "mode = name"}] adds @{text name} to the print mode to
+  be used for presentation (see also \cite{isabelle-ref}).  Note that
+  the standard setup for {\LaTeX} output is already present by
+  default, including the modes @{text latex} and @{text xsymbols}.
+
+  \item[@{text "margin = nat"} and @{text "indent = nat"}] change the
+  margin or indentation for pretty printing of display material.
+
+  \item[@{text "source = bool"}] prints the source text of the
+  antiquotation arguments, rather than the actual value.  Note that
+  this does not affect well-formedness checks of @{antiquotation
+  "thm"}, @{antiquotation "term"}, etc. (only the @{antiquotation
+  "text"} antiquotation admits arbitrary output).
+
+  \item[@{text "goals_limit = nat"}] determines the maximum number of
+  goals to be printed.
+
+  \item[@{text "locale = name"}] specifies an alternative locale
+  context used for evaluating and printing the subsequent argument.
+
+  \end{descr}
+
+  For boolean flags, ``@{text "name = true"}'' may be abbreviated as
+  ``@{text name}''.  All of the above flags are disabled by default,
+  unless changed from ML.
+
+  \medskip Note that antiquotations do not only spare the author from
+  tedious typing of logical entities, but also achieve some degree of
+  consistency-checking of informal explanations with formal
+  developments: well-formedness of terms and types with respect to the
+  current theory or proof context is ensured here.
+*}
+
+
+subsection {* Tagged commands \label{sec:tags} *}
+
+text {*
+  Each Isabelle/Isar command may be decorated by presentation tags:
+
+  \indexouternonterm{tags}
+  \begin{rail}
+    tags: ( tag * )
+    ;
+    tag: '\%' (ident | string)
+  \end{rail}
+
+  The tags @{text "theory"}, @{text "proof"}, @{text "ML"} are already
+  pre-declared for certain classes of commands:
+
+ \medskip
+
+  \begin{tabular}{ll}
+    @{text "theory"} & theory begin/end \\
+    @{text "proof"} & all proof commands \\
+    @{text "ML"} & all commands involving ML code \\
+  \end{tabular}
+
+  \medskip The Isabelle document preparation system (see also
+  \cite{isabelle-sys}) allows tagged command regions to be presented
+  specifically, e.g.\ to fold proof texts, or drop parts of the text
+  completely.
+
+  For example ``@{command "by"}~@{text "%invisible auto"}'' would
+  cause that piece of proof to be treated as @{text invisible} instead
+  of @{text "proof"} (the default), which may be either show or hidden
+  depending on the document setup.  In contrast, ``@{command
+  "by"}~@{text "%visible auto"}'' would force this text to be shown
+  invariably.
+
+  Explicit tag specifications within a proof apply to all subsequent
+  commands of the same level of nesting.  For example, ``@{command
+  "proof"}~@{text "%visible \<dots>"}~@{command "qed"}'' would force the
+  whole sub-proof to be typeset as @{text visible} (unless some of its
+  parts are tagged differently).
+*}
+
+end
--- a/doc-src/IsarRef/isar-ref.tex	Mon Apr 28 13:41:04 2008 +0200
+++ b/doc-src/IsarRef/isar-ref.tex	Mon Apr 28 14:22:42 2008 +0200
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 
 \input{Thy/document/intro.tex}
 \input{basics.tex}
-\input{syntax.tex}
+\input{Thy/document/syntax.tex}
 \input{pure.tex}
 \input{generic.tex}
 \input{logics.tex}
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-\chapter{Syntax primitives}
-
-The rather generic framework of Isabelle/Isar syntax emerges from three main
-syntactic categories: \emph{commands} of the top-level Isar engine (covering
-theory and proof elements), \emph{methods} for general goal refinements
-(analogous to traditional ``tactics''), and \emph{attributes} for operations
-on facts (within a certain context).  Here we give a reference of basic
-syntactic entities underlying Isabelle/Isar syntax in a bottom-up manner.
-Concrete theory and proof language elements will be introduced later on.
-
-\medskip
-
-In order to get started with writing well-formed Isabelle/Isar documents, the
-most important aspect to be noted is the difference of \emph{inner} versus
-\emph{outer} syntax.  Inner syntax is that of Isabelle types and terms of the
-logic, while outer syntax is that of Isabelle/Isar theory sources (including
-proofs).  As a general rule, inner syntax entities may occur only as
-\emph{atomic entities} within outer syntax.  For example, the string
-\texttt{"x + y"} and identifier \texttt{z} are legal term specifications
-within a theory, while \texttt{x + y} is not.
-
-\begin{warn}
-  Old-style Isabelle theories used to fake parts of the inner syntax of types,
-  with rather complicated rules when quotes may be omitted.  Despite the minor
-  drawback of requiring quotes more often, the syntax of Isabelle/Isar is
-  somewhat simpler and more robust in that respect.
-\end{warn}
-
-Printed theory documents usually omit quotes to gain readability (this is a
-matter of {\LaTeX} macro setup, say via \verb,\isabellestyle,, see also
-\cite{isabelle-sys}).  Experienced users of Isabelle/Isar may easily
-reconstruct the lost technical information, while mere readers need not care
-about quotes at all.
-
-\medskip
-
-Isabelle/Isar input may contain any number of input termination characters
-``\texttt{;}'' (semicolon) to separate commands explicitly.  This is
-particularly useful in interactive shell sessions to make clear where the
-current command is intended to end.  Otherwise, the interpreter loop will
-continue to issue a secondary prompt ``\verb,#,'' until an end-of-command is
-clearly recognized from the input syntax, e.g.\ encounter of the next command
-keyword.
-
-Advanced interfaces such as Proof~General \cite{proofgeneral} do not require
-explicit semicolons, the amount of input text is determined automatically by
-inspecting the present content of the Emacs text buffer.  In the printed
-presentation of Isabelle/Isar documents semicolons are omitted altogether for
-readability.
-
-\begin{warn}
-  Proof~General requires certain syntax classification tables in order to
-  achieve properly synchronized interaction with the Isabelle/Isar process.
-  These tables need to be consistent with the Isabelle version and particular
-  logic image to be used in a running session (common object-logics may well
-  change the outer syntax).  The standard setup should work correctly with any
-  of the ``official'' logic images derived from Isabelle/HOL (including HOLCF
-  etc.).  Users of alternative logics may need to tell Proof~General
-  explicitly, e.g.\ by giving an option \verb,-k ZF, (in conjunction with
-  \verb,-l ZF, to specify the default logic image).
-\end{warn}
-
-\section{Lexical matters}\label{sec:lex-syntax}
-
-The Isabelle/Isar outer syntax provides token classes as presented below; most
-of these coincide with the inner lexical syntax as presented in
-\cite{isabelle-ref}.
-
-\indexoutertoken{ident}\indexoutertoken{longident}\indexoutertoken{symident}
-\indexoutertoken{nat}\indexoutertoken{var}\indexoutertoken{typefree}
-\indexoutertoken{typevar}\indexoutertoken{string}\indexoutertoken{altstring}
-\indexoutertoken{verbatim}
-\begin{matharray}{rcl}
-  ident & = & letter\,quasiletter^* \\
-  longident & = & ident (\verb,.,ident)^+ \\
-  symident & = & sym^+ ~|~ \verb,\<,ident\verb,>, \\
-  nat & = & digit^+ \\
-  var & = & ident ~|~ \verb,?,ident ~|~ \verb,?,ident\verb,.,nat \\
-  typefree & = & \verb,',ident \\
-  typevar & = & typefree ~|~ \verb,?,typefree ~|~ \verb,?,typefree\verb,.,nat \\
-  string & = & \verb,", ~\dots~ \verb,", \\
-  altstring & = & \backquote ~\dots~ \backquote \\
-  verbatim & = & \verb,{*, ~\dots~ \verb,*}, \\[1ex]
-
-  letter & = & latin ~|~ \verb,\<,latin\verb,>, ~|~ \verb,\<,latin\,latin\verb,>, ~|~ greek ~|~ \\
-         &   & \verb,\<^isub>, ~|~ \verb,\<^isup>, \\
-  quasiletter & = & letter ~|~ digit ~|~ \verb,_, ~|~ \verb,', \\
-  latin & = & \verb,a, ~|~ \dots ~|~ \verb,z, ~|~ \verb,A, ~|~ \dots ~|~ \verb,Z, \\
-  digit & = & \verb,0, ~|~ \dots ~|~ \verb,9, \\
-  sym & = & \verb,!, ~|~ \verb,#, ~|~ \verb,$, ~|~ \verb,%, ~|~ \verb,&, ~|~  %$
-   \verb,*, ~|~ \verb,+, ~|~ \verb,-, ~|~ \verb,/, ~|~ \\
-  & & \verb,<, ~|~ \verb,=, ~|~ \verb,>, ~|~ \verb,?, ~|~ \texttt{\at} ~|~
-  \verb,^, ~|~ \verb,_, ~|~ \verb,|, ~|~ \verb,~, \\
-greek & = & \verb,\<alpha>, ~|~ \verb,\<beta>, ~|~ \verb,\<gamma>, ~|~ \verb,\<delta>, ~| \\
-      &   & \verb,\<epsilon>, ~|~ \verb,\<zeta>, ~|~ \verb,\<eta>, ~|~ \verb,\<theta>, ~| \\
-      &   & \verb,\<iota>, ~|~ \verb,\<kappa>, ~|~ \verb,\<mu>, ~|~ \verb,\<nu>, ~| \\
-      &   & \verb,\<xi>, ~|~ \verb,\<pi>, ~|~ \verb,\<rho>, ~|~ \verb,\<sigma>, ~|~ \verb,\<tau>, ~| \\
-      &   & \verb,\<upsilon>, ~|~ \verb,\<phi>, ~|~ \verb,\<chi>, ~|~ \verb,\<psi>, ~| \\
-      &   & \verb,\<omega>, ~|~ \verb,\<Gamma>, ~|~ \verb,\<Delta>, ~|~ \verb,\<Theta>, ~| \\
-      &   & \verb,\<Lambda>, ~|~ \verb,\<Xi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Pi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Sigma>, ~| \\
-      &   & \verb,\<Upsilon>, ~|~ \verb,\<Phi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Psi>, ~|~ \verb,\<Omega>, \\
-\end{matharray}
-
-The syntax of $string$ admits any characters, including newlines;
-``\verb|"|'' (double-quote) and ``\verb|\|'' (backslash) need to be
-escaped by a backslash; arbitrary character codes may be specified as
-``\verb|\|$ddd$'', with 3 decimal digits as in SML.  Alternative
-strings according to $altstring$ are analogous, using single
-back-quotes instead.  The body of $verbatim$ may consist of any text
-not containing ``\verb|*}|''; this allows convenient inclusion of
-quotes without further escapes.  The greek letters do \emph{not}
-include \verb,\<lambda>,, which is already used differently in the
-meta-logic.
-
-Common mathematical symbols such as $\forall$ are represented in Isabelle as
-\verb,\<forall>,.  There are infinitely many legal symbols like this, although
-proper presentation is left to front-end tools such as {\LaTeX} or
-Proof~General with the X-Symbol package.  A list of standard Isabelle symbols
-that work well with these tools is given in \cite[appendix~A]{isabelle-sys}.
-
-Comments take the form \texttt{(*~\dots~*)} and may be nested, although
-user-interface tools may prevent this.  Note that \texttt{(*~\dots~*)}
-indicate source comments only, which are stripped after lexical analysis of
-the input.  The Isar document syntax also provides formal comments that are
-considered as part of the text (see \S\ref{sec:comments}).
-
-\begin{warn}
-  Proof~General does not handle nested comments properly; it is also unable to
-  keep \verb,(*,\,/\,\verb,{*, and \verb,*),\,/\,\verb,*}, apart, despite
-  their rather different meaning.  These are inherent problems of Emacs
-  legacy.  Users should not be overly aggressive about nesting or alternating
-  these delimiters.
-\end{warn}
-
-
-\section{Common syntax entities}
-
-Subsequently, we introduce several basic syntactic entities, such as names,
-terms, and theorem specifications, which have been factored out of the actual
-Isar language elements to be described later.
-
-Note that some of the basic syntactic entities introduced below (e.g.\
-\railqtok{name}) act much like tokens rather than plain nonterminals (e.g.\
-\railnonterm{sort}), especially for the sake of error messages.  E.g.\ syntax
-elements like $\CONSTS$ referring to \railqtok{name} or \railqtok{type} would
-really report a missing name or type rather than any of the constituent
-primitive tokens such as \railtok{ident} or \railtok{string}.
-
-
-\subsection{Names}
-
-Entity \railqtok{name} usually refers to any name of types, constants,
-theorems etc.\ that are to be \emph{declared} or \emph{defined} (so qualified
-identifiers are excluded here).  Quoted strings provide an escape for
-non-identifier names or those ruled out by outer syntax keywords (e.g.\
-\verb|"let"|).  Already existing objects are usually referenced by
-\railqtok{nameref}.
-
-\indexoutertoken{name}\indexoutertoken{parname}\indexoutertoken{nameref}
-\indexoutertoken{int}
-\begin{rail}
-  name: ident | symident | string | nat
-  ;
-  parname: '(' name ')'
-  ;
-  nameref: name | longident
-  ;
-  int: nat | '-' nat
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-
-\subsection{Comments}\label{sec:comments}
-
-Large chunks of plain \railqtok{text} are usually given \railtok{verbatim},
-i.e.\ enclosed in \verb|{*|~\dots~\verb|*}|.  For convenience, any of the
-smaller text units conforming to \railqtok{nameref} are admitted as well.  A
-marginal \railnonterm{comment} is of the form \texttt{--} \railqtok{text}.
-Any number of these may occur within Isabelle/Isar commands.
-
-\indexoutertoken{text}\indexouternonterm{comment}
-\begin{rail}
-  text: verbatim | nameref
-  ;
-  comment: '--' text
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-
-\subsection{Type classes, sorts and arities}
-
-Classes are specified by plain names.  Sorts have a very simple inner syntax,
-which is either a single class name $c$ or a list $\{c@1, \dots, c@n\}$
-referring to the intersection of these classes.  The syntax of type arities is
-given directly at the outer level.
-
-\railalias{subseteq}{\isasymsubseteq}
-\railterm{subseteq}
-
-\indexouternonterm{sort}\indexouternonterm{arity}
-\indexouternonterm{classdecl}
-\begin{rail}
-  classdecl: name (('<' | subseteq) (nameref + ','))?
-  ;
-  sort: nameref
-  ;
-  arity: ('(' (sort + ',') ')')? sort
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-
-\subsection{Types and terms}\label{sec:types-terms}
-
-The actual inner Isabelle syntax, that of types and terms of the logic, is far
-too sophisticated in order to be modelled explicitly at the outer theory
-level.  Basically, any such entity has to be quoted to turn it into a single
-token (the parsing and type-checking is performed internally later).  For
-convenience, a slightly more liberal convention is adopted: quotes may be
-omitted for any type or term that is already atomic at the outer level.  For
-example, one may just write \texttt{x} instead of \texttt{"x"}.  Note that
-symbolic identifiers (e.g.\ \texttt{++} or $\forall$) are available as well,
-provided these have not been superseded by commands or other keywords already
-(e.g.\ \texttt{=} or \texttt{+}).
-
-\indexoutertoken{type}\indexoutertoken{term}\indexoutertoken{prop}
-\begin{rail}
-  type: nameref | typefree | typevar
-  ;
-  term: nameref | var
-  ;
-  prop: term
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-Positional instantiations are indicated by giving a sequence of terms, or the
-placeholder ``$\_$'' (underscore), which means to skip a position.
-
-\indexoutertoken{inst}\indexoutertoken{insts}
-\begin{rail}
-  inst: underscore | term
-  ;
-  insts: (inst *)
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-Type declarations and definitions usually refer to \railnonterm{typespec} on
-the left-hand side.  This models basic type constructor application at the
-outer syntax level.  Note that only plain postfix notation is available here,
-but no infixes.
-
-\indexouternonterm{typespec}
-\begin{rail}
-  typespec: (() | typefree | '(' ( typefree + ',' ) ')') name
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-
-\subsection{Mixfix annotations}
-
-Mixfix annotations specify concrete \emph{inner} syntax of Isabelle types and
-terms.  Some commands such as $\TYPES$ (see \S\ref{sec:types-pure}) admit
-infixes only, while $\CONSTS$ (see \S\ref{sec:consts}) and
-$\isarkeyword{syntax}$ (see \S\ref{sec:syn-trans}) support the full range of
-general mixfixes and binders.
-
-\indexouternonterm{infix}\indexouternonterm{mixfix}\indexouternonterm{structmixfix}
-\begin{rail}
-  infix: '(' ('infix' | 'infixl' | 'infixr') string? nat ')'
-  ;
-  mixfix: infix | '(' string prios? nat? ')' | '(' 'binder' string prios? nat ')'
-  ;
-  structmixfix: mixfix | '(' 'structure' ')'
-  ;
-
-  prios: '[' (nat + ',') ']'
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-Here the \railtok{string} specifications refer to the actual mixfix template
-(see also \cite{isabelle-ref}), which may include literal text, spacing,
-blocks, and arguments (denoted by ``$_$''); the special symbol \verb,\<index>,
-(printed as ``\i'') represents an index argument that specifies an implicit
-structure reference (see also \S\ref{sec:locale}).  Infix and binder
-declarations provide common abbreviations for particular mixfix declarations.
-So in practice, mixfix templates mostly degenerate to literal text for
-concrete syntax, such as ``\verb,++,'' for an infix symbol, or ``\verb,++,\i''
-for an infix of an implicit structure.
-
-
-
-\subsection{Proof methods}\label{sec:syn-meth}
-
-Proof methods are either basic ones, or expressions composed of
-methods via ``\texttt{,}'' (sequential composition), ``\texttt{|}''
-(alternative choices), ``\texttt{?}'' (try), ``\texttt{+}'' (repeat at
-least once), ``\texttt{[$n$]}'' (restriction to first $n$ sub-goals,
-default $n = 1$).  In practice, proof methods are usually just a comma
-separated list of \railqtok{nameref}~\railnonterm{args}
-specifications.  Note that parentheses may be dropped for single
-method specifications (with no arguments).
-
-\indexouternonterm{method}
-\begin{rail}
-  method: (nameref | '(' methods ')') (() | '?' | '+' | '[' nat? ']')
-  ;
-  methods: (nameref args | method) + (',' | '|')
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-Proper Isar proof methods do \emph{not} admit arbitrary goal
-addressing, but refer either to the first sub-goal or all sub-goals
-uniformly.  The goal restriction operator ``\texttt{[$n$]}'' evaluates
-a method expression within a sandbox consisting of the first $n$
-sub-goals (which need to exist).  For example,
-$simp_all\mbox{\tt[}3\mbox{\tt]}$ simplifies the first three
-sub-goals, while $(rule~foo, simp_all)\mbox{\tt[]}$ simplifies all new
-goals that emerge from applying rule $foo$ to the originally first
-one.
-
-Improper methods, notably tactic emulations, offer a separate
-low-level goal addressing scheme as explicit argument to the
-individual tactic being involved.  Here $[!]$ refers to all goals, and
-$[n-]$ to all goals starting from $n$,
-
-\indexouternonterm{goalspec}
-\begin{rail}
-  goalspec: '[' (nat '-' nat | nat '-' | nat | '!' ) ']'
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-
-\subsection{Attributes and theorems}\label{sec:syn-att}
-
-Attributes (and proof methods, see \S\ref{sec:syn-meth}) have their own
-``semi-inner'' syntax, in the sense that input conforming to
-\railnonterm{args} below is parsed by the attribute a second time.  The
-attribute argument specifications may be any sequence of atomic entities
-(identifiers, strings etc.), or properly bracketed argument lists.  Below
-\railqtok{atom} refers to any atomic entity, including any \railtok{keyword}
-conforming to \railtok{symident}.
-
-\indexoutertoken{atom}\indexouternonterm{args}\indexouternonterm{attributes}
-\begin{rail}
-  atom: nameref | typefree | typevar | var | nat | keyword
-  ;
-  arg: atom | '(' args ')' | '[' args ']'
-  ;
-  args: arg *
-  ;
-  attributes: '[' (nameref args * ',') ']'
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-Theorem specifications come in several flavors: \railnonterm{axmdecl}
-and \railnonterm{thmdecl} usually refer to axioms, assumptions or
-results of goal statements, while \railnonterm{thmdef} collects lists
-of existing theorems.  Existing theorems are given by
-\railnonterm{thmref} and \railnonterm{thmrefs}, the former requires an
-actual singleton result.  There are three forms of theorem references:
-(1) named facts $a$, (2) selections from named facts $a(i, j - k)$, or
-(3) literal fact propositions using $altstring$ syntax
-$\backquote\phi\backquote$, (see also method $fact$ in
-\S\ref{sec:pure-meth-att}).
-
-Any kind of theorem specification may include lists of attributes both
-on the left and right hand sides; attributes are applied to any
-immediately preceding fact.  If names are omitted, the theorems are
-not stored within the theorem database of the theory or proof context,
-but any given attributes are applied nonetheless.
-
-An extra pair of brackets around attribute declarations --- such as
-``$[[simproc~a]]$'' --- abbreviates a theorem reference involving an
-internal dummy fact, which will be ignored later on.  So only the
-effect of the attribute on the background context will persist.  This
-form of in-place declarations is particularly useful with commands
-like $\DECLARE$ and $\USINGNAME$.
-
-\indexouternonterm{axmdecl}\indexouternonterm{thmdecl}
-\indexouternonterm{thmdef}\indexouternonterm{thmref}
-\indexouternonterm{thmrefs}\indexouternonterm{selection}
-\begin{rail}
-  axmdecl: name attributes? ':'
-  ;
-  thmdecl: thmbind ':'
-  ;
-  thmdef: thmbind '='
-  ;
-  thmref: (nameref selection? | altstring) attributes? | '[' attributes ']'
-  ;
-  thmrefs: thmref +
-  ;
-
-  thmbind: name attributes | name | attributes
-  ;
-  selection: '(' ((nat | nat '-' nat?) + ',') ')'
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-
-\subsection{Term patterns and declarations}\label{sec:term-decls}
-
-Wherever explicit propositions (or term fragments) occur in a proof text,
-casual binding of schematic term variables may be given specified via patterns
-of the form ``$\ISS{p@1\;\dots}{p@n}$''.  There are separate versions
-available for \railqtok{term}s and \railqtok{prop}s.  The latter provides a
-$\CONCLNAME$ part with patterns referring the (atomic) conclusion of a rule.
-
-\indexouternonterm{termpat}\indexouternonterm{proppat}
-\begin{rail}
-  termpat: '(' ('is' term +) ')'
-  ;
-  proppat: '(' ('is' prop +) ')'
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-Declarations of local variables $x :: \tau$ and logical propositions $a :
-\phi$ represent different views on the same principle of introducing a local
-scope.  In practice, one may usually omit the typing of $vars$ (due to
-type-inference), and the naming of propositions (due to implicit references of
-current facts).  In any case, Isar proof elements usually admit to introduce
-multiple such items simultaneously.
-
-\indexouternonterm{vars}\indexouternonterm{props}
-\begin{rail}
-  vars: (name+) ('::' type)?
-  ;
-  props: thmdecl? (prop proppat? +)
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-The treatment of multiple declarations corresponds to the complementary focus
-of $vars$ versus $props$: in ``$x@1~\dots~x@n :: \tau$'' the typing refers to
-all variables, while in $a\colon \phi@1~\dots~\phi@n$ the naming refers to all
-propositions collectively.  Isar language elements that refer to $vars$ or
-$props$ typically admit separate typings or namings via another level of
-iteration, with explicit $\AND$ separators; e.g.\ see $\FIXNAME$ and
-$\ASSUMENAME$ in \S\ref{sec:proof-context}.
-
-
-\subsection{Antiquotations}\label{sec:antiq}
-
-\begin{matharray}{rcl}
-  theory & : & \isarantiq \\
-  thm & : & \isarantiq \\
-  prop & : & \isarantiq \\
-  term & : & \isarantiq \\
-  const & : & \isarantiq \\
-  abbrev & : & \isarantiq \\
-  typeof & : & \isarantiq \\
-  typ & : & \isarantiq \\
-  thm_style & : & \isarantiq \\
-  term_style & : & \isarantiq \\
-  text & : & \isarantiq \\
-  goals & : & \isarantiq \\
-  subgoals & : & \isarantiq \\
-  prf & : & \isarantiq \\
-  full_prf & : & \isarantiq \\
-  ML & : & \isarantiq \\
-  ML_type & : & \isarantiq \\
-  ML_struct & : & \isarantiq \\
-\end{matharray}
-
-The text body of formal comments (see also \S\ref{sec:comments}) may contain
-antiquotations of logical entities, such as theorems, terms and types, which
-are to be presented in the final output produced by the Isabelle document
-preparation system (see also \S\ref{sec:document-prep}).
-
-Thus embedding of
-``\texttt{{\at}{\ttlbrace}term~[show_types]~"f(x)~=~a~+~x"{\ttrbrace}}''
-within a text block would cause
-\isa{(f{\isasymColon}'a~{\isasymRightarrow}~'a)~(x{\isasymColon}'a)~=~(a{\isasymColon}'a)~+~x}
-to appear in the final {\LaTeX} document.  Also note that theorem
-antiquotations may involve attributes as well.  For example,
-\texttt{{\at}{\ttlbrace}thm~sym~[no_vars]{\ttrbrace}} would print the
-statement where all schematic variables have been replaced by fixed ones,
-which are easier to read.
-
-\indexisarant{theory}\indexisarant{thm}\indexisarant{prop}\indexisarant{term}\indexisarant{const}
-\indexisarant{abbrev}\indexisarant{typeof}\indexisarant{typ}\indexisarant{thm-style}
-\indexisarant{term-style}\indexisarant{text}\indexisarant{goals}
-\indexisarant{subgoals}\indexisarant{prf}\indexisarant{full-prf}\indexisarant{ML}
-\indexisarant{ML-type}\indexisarant{ML-struct}
-
-\begin{rail}
-  atsign lbrace antiquotation rbrace
-  ;
-
-  antiquotation:
-    'theory' options name |
-    'thm' options thmrefs |
-    'prop' options prop |
-    'term' options term |
-    'const' options term |
-    'abbrev' options term |
-    'typeof' options term |
-    'typ' options type |
-    'thm\_style' options name thmref |
-    'term\_style' options name term |
-    'text' options name |
-    'goals' options |
-    'subgoals' options |
-    'prf' options thmrefs |
-    'full\_prf' options thmrefs |
-    'ML' options name |
-    'ML\_type' options name |
-    'ML\_struct' options name
-  ;
-  options: '[' (option * ',') ']'
-  ;
-  option: name | name '=' name
-  ;
-\end{rail}
-
-Note that the syntax of antiquotations may \emph{not} include source comments
-\texttt{(*~\dots~*)} or verbatim text \verb|{*|~\dots~\verb|*}|.
-
-\begin{descr}
-  
-\item [$\at\{theory~A\}$] prints the name $A$, which is guaranteed to
-  refer to a valid ancestor theory in the current context.
-
-\item [$\at\{thm~\vec a\}$] prints theorems $\vec a$. Note that attribute
-  specifications may be included as well (see also \S\ref{sec:syn-att}); the
-  $no_vars$ operation (see \S\ref{sec:misc-meth-att}) would be particularly
-  useful to suppress printing of schematic variables.
-
-\item [$\at\{prop~\phi\}$] prints a well-typed proposition $\phi$.
-
-\item [$\at\{term~t\}$] prints a well-typed term $t$.
-
-\item [$\at\{const~c\}$] prints a logical or syntactic constant $c$.
-  
-\item [$\at\{abbrev~c\,\vec x\}$] prints a constant abbreviation
-  $c\,\vec x \equiv rhs$ as defined in the current context.
-
-\item [$\at\{typeof~t\}$] prints the type of a well-typed term $t$.
-
-\item [$\at\{typ~\tau\}$] prints a well-formed type $\tau$.
-  
-\item [$\at\{thm_style~s~a\}$] prints theorem $a$, previously applying a style
-  $s$ to it (see below).
-  
-\item [$\at\{term_style~s~t\}$] prints a well-typed term $t$ after applying a
-  style $s$ to it (see below).
-
-\item [$\at\{text~s\}$] prints uninterpreted source text $s$.  This is
-  particularly useful to print portions of text according to the Isabelle
-  {\LaTeX} output style, without demanding well-formedness (e.g.\ small pieces
-  of terms that should not be parsed or type-checked yet).
-
-\item [$\at\{goals\}$] prints the current \emph{dynamic} goal state.  This is
-  mainly for support of tactic-emulation scripts within Isar --- presentation
-  of goal states does not conform to actual human-readable proof documents.
-  Please do not include goal states into document output unless you really
-  know what you are doing!
-  
-\item [$\at\{subgoals\}$] is similar to $goals$, but does not print the main
-  goal.
-  
-\item [$\at\{prf~\vec a\}$] prints the (compact) proof terms corresponding to
-  the theorems $\vec a$. Note that this requires proof terms to be switched on
-  for the current object logic (see the ``Proof terms'' section of the
-  Isabelle reference manual for information on how to do this).
-  
-\item [$\at\{full_prf~\vec a\}$] is like $\at\{prf~\vec a\}$, but displays the
-  full proof terms, i.e.\ also displays information omitted in the compact
-  proof term, which is denoted by ``$_$'' placeholders there.
-  
-\item [$\at\{ML~s\}$, $\at\{ML_type~s\}$, and $\at\{ML_struct~s\}$] check text
-  $s$ as ML value, type, and structure, respectively.  If successful, the
-  source is displayed verbatim.
-
-\end{descr}
-
-\medskip
-
-The following standard styles for use with $thm_style$ and $term_style$ are
-available:
-
-\begin{descr}
-  
-\item [$lhs$] extracts the first argument of any application form with at
-  least two arguments -- typically meta-level or object-level equality, or any
-  other binary relation.
-  
-\item [$rhs$] is like $lhs$, but extracts the second argument.
-  
-\item [$concl$] extracts the conclusion $C$ from a nested meta-level
-  implication $A@1 \Imp \cdots A@n \Imp C$.
-  
-\item [$prem1$, \dots, $prem9$] extract premise number $1$, \dots, $9$,
-  respectively, from a nested meta-level implication $A@1 \Imp \cdots A@n \Imp
-  C$.
-
-\end{descr}
-
-\medskip
-
-The following options are available to tune the output.  Note that most of
-these coincide with ML flags of the same names (see also \cite{isabelle-ref}).
-\begin{descr}
-\item[$show_types = bool$ and $show_sorts = bool$] control printing of
-  explicit type and sort constraints.
-\item[$show_structs = bool$] controls printing of implicit structures.
-\item[$long_names = bool$] forces names of types and constants etc.\ to be
-  printed in their fully qualified internal form.
-\item[$short_names = bool$] forces names of types and constants etc.\ to be
-  printed unqualified.  Note that internalizing the output again in the
-  current context may well yield a different result.
-\item[$unique_names = bool$] determines whether the printed version of
-  qualified names should be made sufficiently long to avoid overlap with names
-  declared further back.  Set to $false$ for more concise output.
-\item[$eta_contract = bool$] prints terms in $\eta$-contracted form.
-\item[$display = bool$] indicates if the text is to be output as multi-line
-  ``display material'', rather than a small piece of text without line breaks
-  (which is the default).
-\item[$break = bool$] controls line breaks in non-display material.
-\item[$quotes = bool$] indicates if the output should be enclosed in double
-  quotes.
-\item[$mode = name$] adds $name$ to the print mode to be used for presentation
-  (see also \cite{isabelle-ref}).  Note that the standard setup for {\LaTeX}
-  output is already present by default, including the modes ``$latex$'',
-  ``$xsymbols$'', ``$symbols$''.
-\item[$margin = nat$ and $indent = nat$] change the margin or indentation for
-  pretty printing of display material.
-\item[$source = bool$] prints the source text of the antiquotation arguments,
-  rather than the actual value.  Note that this does not affect
-  well-formedness checks of $thm$, $term$, etc. (only the $text$ antiquotation
-  admits arbitrary output).
-\item[$goals_limit = nat$] determines the maximum number of goals to be
-  printed.
-\item[$locale = name$] specifies an alternative context used for evaluating
-  and printing the subsequent argument.
-\end{descr}
-
-For boolean flags, ``$name = true$'' may be abbreviated as ``$name$''.  All of
-the above flags are disabled by default, unless changed from ML.
-
-\medskip Note that antiquotations do not only spare the author from tedious
-typing of logical entities, but also achieve some degree of
-consistency-checking of informal explanations with formal developments:
-well-formedness of terms and types with respect to the current theory or proof
-context is ensured here.
-
-
-\subsection{Tagged commands}\label{sec:tags}
-
-Each Isabelle/Isar command may be decorated by presentation tags:
-
-\indexouternonterm{tags}
-\begin{rail}
-  tags: ( tag * )
-  ;
-  tag: '\%' (ident | string)
-\end{rail}
-
-The tags $theory$, $proof$, $ML$ are already pre-declared for certain classes
-of commands:
-
-\medskip
-
-\begin{tabular}{ll}
-  $theory$ & theory begin and end \\
-  $proof$ & all proof commands \\
-  $ML$ & all commands involving ML code \\
-\end{tabular}
-
-\medskip The Isabelle document preparation system (see also
-\cite{isabelle-sys}) allows tagged command regions to be presented
-specifically, e.g.\ to fold proof texts, or drop parts of the text completely.
-
-For example ``$\BYNAME~\%invisible~(auto)$'' would cause that piece of proof
-to be treated as $invisible$ instead of $proof$ (the default), which may be
-either show or hidden depending on the document setup.  In contrast,
-``$\BYNAME~\%visible~(auto)$'' would force this text to be shown invariably.
-
-Explicit tag specifications within a proof apply to all subsequent commands of
-the same level of nesting.  For example,
-``$\PROOFNAME~\%visible~\dots\QEDNAME$'' would force the whole sub-proof to be
-typeset as $visible$ (unless some of its parts are tagged differently).
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