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AProVE Help SystemProof OutputProof Format

AProVE is able to export the available proof information to different output formats. Depending on the format, the layout offers different features like links (HTML) or graph images (LaTeX and pdfLaTeX). Information about generating such files you find here.

Plain text

This is the simplest output format. AProVE just generates a simple text file containing the relevant proof information. The layouts using the export dialog or the command line interface are identical.

HTML

A Hyper Text Markup Language file may be opened with a web browser. AProVE's Result Viewer also uses HTML to display the proof result. In the full proof view, links are available which enable navigating inside the proof.

pdf-LaTeX

A pdfLaTeX file requires the program "pdflatex" (please look at http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/ for more details). If You decide to export a proof result to a file "plus.tex", just call

       pdflatex plus.tex
to generate a pdf file. The .png image files which are generated in the same directory are needed by pdflatex and will be superfluous after executing pdflatex. The pdf file itself may be opened with the Adobe Reader which You can download at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html .

LaTeX (with dotty)

In this case, AProVE generates a LaTeX file (see http://www.tug.org/ for different LaTeX distributions) and some dotty (.dot) files in the same specified directory. Dotty files are graph representations of the Strongly Connected Components which may be encountered in the given program (see the description of Dependency Pairs for more details).

By using the command

       latex plus.tex 

a device independent (dvi) file is generated.

Important: The dvi file contains shell commands which have to be enabled during inspecting or converting the file. Here are two examples to treat the dvi file:


Note: All png and dot files are superflous after generating a Postscript or pdf file.