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+HOL Light in Proof General.
+
+Written by David Aspinall.
+
+Status:	           not officially supported yet
+Maintainer:       volunteer required
+HOL-Ligh version:
+HOL homepage:      http://hol.sourceforge.net
+
+========================================
+
+
+This is a "technology demonstration" of Proof General for HOL-Light.
+
+It may work with other versions of HOL, but is untested (please let me
+know if you try).  Probably just a few settings need changing to
+configure for different output formats.
+
+It has basic script management support, with a little bit of
+decoration of scripts and output.
+
+There is support for Unicode Tokens.
+
+I have written this in the hope that somebody from the HOL-Light
+community will adopt it, maintain and improve it, and thus turn it
+into a proper instantiation of Proof General.
+
+
+------------
+
+Notes:
+
+There are some problems at the moment.  HOL proof scripts often use
+batch-oriented single step tactic proofs, but Proof General does not
+offer an easy way to edit these kind of proofs.  The "Boomburg-HOL"
+Emacs interface by Koichi Takahashi and Masima Hagiya addressed this,
+and to some extent so perhaps does the Emacs interface supplied with
+HOL.  Perhaps one of these could be embedded/reimplemented inside
+Proof General.  Implemented in a generic way, managing batch vs
+interactive proofs might also be useful for other provers.
+
+Another problem is that HOL scripts sometimes use SML structures,
+which can cause confusion because Proof General does not really parse
+SML, it just looks for semicolons.  This could be improved by taking a
+better parser (e.g. from sml mode).
+
+These improvements would be worthwhile contributions to Proof General
+and also provide the HOL community with a nice front end.  
+Please have a go!
+
+
+$Id$
+