[petsc-dev] Known outdated sections of the User's Manual?

[Hong]

Matthew:

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>   b) Use Lisandro's new support for movies, and better support for drawing
> (there is even a Plex draw now)
>

Any example/instruction on how to use Plex draw?
An undergraduate student is work with me on developing map-drawing (using
saws) for DMNetwork, which is a subclass of DMPlex.

Hong

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>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm working on some groundwork to improve the PETSc documentation, and
>> >> the next thing I'd like to look at is the User's Manual, adding
>> >> slightly-prettier code listings (as in the update to the dev manual).
>> >>
>> >> Before doing that, however,  it would be very helpful to know if there
>> >> are any sections of the manual which are known, by the relevant
>> >> experts here, to require deletion or heavy rewrites; it would of
>> >> course be a waste of time to format these.
>> >>
>> >> Specifically, I'm wondering about the following sections, which have
>> >> in common that they are things concerned with friendly external tools.
>> >> I've seen new users get very frustrated when they expect these sorts
>> >> of things to "just work," so it's probably constructive to remove any
>> >> outdated information here:
>> >>
>> >> - Chapter 11: Using MATLAB with PETSc . The support here has changed
>> >> quite a lot, so I'm not sure what currently works. Is the MATLAB
>> >> Compute Engine still supported?
>> >>
>> >> - Sections 15.10-15.14: Eclipse/Qt Creator/Developers Studio/XCode
>> >> users. This is likely not all current. Is this information helpful
>> >> here?
>> >>
>> >> - Section 15.15 : Graphics. I saw that there were some updates to the
>> >> drawing tools recently by Lisandro, so if any of this material is
>> >> known to be out of date, that would be helpful to know.
>> >
>> >
>> > I think graphics is not so much out of date now as incomplete. We really
>> > want
>> > to be telling people to do things the modern way, but the old ways still
>> > work.
>> >
>> >    Matt
>> >
>> > --
>> > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments
>> > is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments
>> > lead.
>> > -- Norbert Wiener
>>
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> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
>
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