[petsc-dev] Known outdated sections of the User's Manual?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Hong <hzhang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Matthew:
>
>>
>>   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.
>

It may have bugs, but in 'next' you should be able to give

  -dm_view draw

to get a wireframe of a 2D Plex, and

  -vec_view draw

to get an unstructured P1 interpolant for that function if the Vec comes
from a Plex.

  Thanks,

     Matt


> Hong
>
>>
>>
>>> 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 outdated information here: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 known to be out of date, that would be helpful to know.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 I think graphics is not so much out of date now as incomplete.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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>
>


-- 
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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