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by NSMeta 4158 days ago
There's a link to his paper:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...

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After reading that, I think structured proofs should be written with an outliner [0] interface, where you can actually expand and collapse the hierarchy. Lamport also knows this. He repeatedly mentions it as "hypertext". However, he seems to be locked into LaTeX [1] and pdf generation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner

[1] Not really surprising. Lamport invented LaTeX.

Right. It would have been nice to have a short yet more in-depth example in the article.