[isabelle-dev] Isabelle website

[Makarius]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Makarius wrote:

> Moreover, we should reconsider the old question what to do with 
> http://isabelle.in.tum.de/overview.html

Further notes on this: the general question is how to ease the first 
encounter with Isbaelle after download.

People who have tested the integrated applications may already have 
noticed that there is now the "Documentation" panel wide open by default. 
This gives access to our long list of manuals, also a few quick-start 
examples.  People need to spend a few minutes looking around to figure 
this out.

I have recently added a new "jedit" manual for Isabelle/jEdit, but there 
is still relatively little text, apart from the material from the old 
README.  Maybe I will write a bit more when I am on vacation in the second 
half of October.


This perspective can somehow be taken into account when updating the 
website.  E.g. the old preview by Larry shows how to download, install, 
run Isabelle, open a theory file, but this is now self-explanatory.

There could be some nice videos instead, but I still don't know how to 
produce them.


 	Makarius