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+       <img src="images/matita-text-big.png" alt="Matita" />
+       <a href="matita_it.shtml">
+         <img src="flags/wit.gif" alt="italian flag" />
+        </a>
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-      <p> Matita is a new document-centric interactive theorem prover that
-      integrates several <a href="http://www.mkm-ig.org">Mathematical Knowledge
-       Management</a> tools and techniques. </p>
-
-      <p> Matita is <strong>traditional</strong>. Its logical foundation is the
-      Calculus of (Co)Inductive Constructions (CIC). It can re-use
-      mathematical concepts produced by other proof assistants like
-      <a href="http://coq.inria.fr">Coq</a> and encoded in an
-      <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> encoding of CIC. The interaction
-      paradigm of Matita is familiar, being inspired by CtCoq and
-      <a href="http://proofgeneral.inf.ed.ac.uk/">Proof General</a>. Its
-      proof language is procedural in the same spirit of LCF. </p>
+      <p class="spaced">
+      Matita (that means <em>pencil</em> in italian) is an experimental, 
+       interactive theorem prover under development at the 
+      <a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it">Computer Science Department</a> of the 
+      <a href="http://www.unibo.it">University of Bologna</a>.
+      </p>
 
-      <p> Matita is <strong>innovative</strong>: </p>
-      <ul class="wide">
+<!-- <a href="http://www.mkm-ig.org">Mathematical Knowledge Management</a> tools and techniques. </p> -->
 
-       <li> the user interface sports high quality bidimensional rendering of
-       proofs and formulae transformed on-the-fly to
-       <a href="http://www.w3.org/Math/">MathML</a> markup, on which direct
-       manipulation of the underlying CIC terms is still possible; </li>
+      <p class="spaced">
+      <span class="screenshots">
+       <a class="quiet" href="images/screenshot-matita.png">
+         <img src="images/MINI_screenshot-matita.png" alt="Matita screenshot: authoring interface" />
+       </a>
+      </span>
+      
+      Matita is based on the 
+      Calculus of (Co)Inductive Constructions, and is compatible, at some
+      extent, with <a href="http://coq.inria.fr">Coq</a>.
+      It is a reasonably small and simple application, whose 
+      architectural and software complexity is meant to be mastered by 
+      students, providing a tool particularly suited for testing innovative 
+      ideas and solutions.
+      Matita adopts a tactic based editing mode; (XML-encoded) proof objects
+      are produced for storage and exchange. 
+      </p>
+      
+      <p class="spaced"> 
+      <span class="screenshots">
+         <a class="quiet" href="images/screenshot-matita-href.png">
+           <img src="images/MINI_screenshot-matita-href.png" alt="Matita screenshot: hyperlinks" />
+         </a>
+         <a class="quiet" href="images/screenshot-matita-selection.png">
+           <img src="images/MINI_screenshot-matita-selection.png" alt="Matita screenshot: direct manipulation" />
+         </a>
+       </span>
+      The graphical interface has been inspired by CtCoq and
+      <a href="http://proofgeneral.inf.ed.ac.uk/">Proof General</a>.
+      It supports high quality bidimensional rendering of
+      proofs and formulae transformed on-the-fly to 
+      <a href="http://www.w3.org/Math/">MathML</a> markup</p>
 
-       <li> the knowledge base is distributed: every authored concepts can be
-       published becoming part of the Matita library which can be browsed as
-       an hypertext (locally or on the World Wide Web) and searched by means
-       of content-based queries; </li>
+      <p class="spaced">
+      <span class="screenshots">
+         <a class="quiet" href="images/screenshot-cicbrowser-browsing.png">
+           <img src="images/MINI_screenshot-cicbrowser-browsing.png" alt="Matita screenshot: library browsing" />
+         </a>
+         <a class="quiet" href="images/screenshot-cicbrowser-query.png">
+           <img src="images/MINI_screenshot-cicbrowser-query.png" alt="Matita screenshot: Whelp query" />
+         </a>
+         <!--
+         <a class="quiet" href="images/screenshot-cicbrowser-proof.png">
+           <img src="images/MINI_screenshot-cicbrowser-proof.png" alt="Matita screenshot: proof rendering"
+         </a>
+         -->
+      </span>
+      
+      The <a href="library.shtml">knowledge base</a> can be 
+      <a href="http://helm.cs.unibo.it/browse/">browsed as an hypertext</a>
+      (locally or on the World Wide Web) and 
+      <a href="http://helm.cs.unibo.it/whelp/"> searched by means of
+      content-based queries</a>; </p>
 
-       <li> the tactical language, part of the proof language, has
+      <p class="spaced">
+       <span class="screenshots">
+         <a class="quiet" href="images/screenshot-tinycals.png">
+           <img src="images/MINI_screenshot-tinycals.png" alt="Matita screenshot: tinycals" />
+         </a>
+       </span>
+       The tactical language, part of the proof language, has
        step-by-step semantics, enabling inspection and replaying of deeply
-       structured proof scripts. </li>
-
+       structured proof scripts. </p>
+        
+      <p>Matita is partially supported by the following Projects: </p>
+      <ul>
+        <li><a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Logic/Types/">
+          Types Project</a></li>
+       <li><a href="http://www.mctafi.math.unipd.it/">McTafi</a></li>
+       <li><a href="http://dama.cs.unibo.it/">Dama</a></li>
       </ul>
 
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