IsarMathLib updated to Isabelle2016-1

I finally got around to update IsarMathLib to Isabelle2016-1 that was released in  December last year. This was a quite time consuming update. The Isabelle system integrates LaTeX to be able to typeset well looking document proofs. This indeed works well – when it does. When there is a problem though it requires  LaTeX specific knowledge or long time to fix. This is what happened this time. The Isabelle team removed an element of its LaTeX setup that was obsoleted a couple of releases ago. They provided a script that was supposed to make necessary changes to theory files, but in my case running it on IsarMathLib’s 78 theory files just caused the errors to multiply. Fortunately Isabelle distribution sources provide lots of examples how LaTeX should be currently set up. After struggling for some time to understand the errors scattered over a 10MB log file I just created the IsarMathLib LaTeX setup from scratch following the examples and it worked. The IsarMathLib’s proof document and outline look better than ever.

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