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Message #19953
Re: Documentation
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 07:29:33PM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 06:19:52PM +0200, Kristian Ølgaard wrote:
> >> On 19 October 2010 16:52, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Kristian, is it time to move things over from newdoc to doc (and remove
> >> > newdoc)?
> >>
> >> Yes, I think we can do that. I was just looking at one of the last
> >> issues which is translating type info from C++ syntax to Python.
> >
> > ok! Johannes, could you update the link/cronjob?
>
> Done.
>
> Johannes
Thanks!
--
Anders
> >> I think we handle all the DOLFIN classes in a nice way using e.g.,
> >> _Mesh_ to create links, but for the built-in types, I think that we
> >> should perhaps do the following:
> >>
> >> For the *Returns* section, the first line should only contain the type
> >> such that for the Mesh::coordinates() function we will have:
> >>
> >> /// *Returns*
> >> /// double*
> >> /// Coordinates of all vertices.
> >>
> >> instead of what we have now:
> >>
> >> /// *Returns*
> >> /// An array of doubles
> >> /// Coordinates of all vertices.
> >>
> >> Then the 'double*' will be mapped to 'numpy.array(float)' (or similar)
> >> for the Python programmer's reference, 'int* --> 'numpy.array(int)'
> >> and 'std::vec<double>' --> 'list of floats' etc.
> >>
> >> For the *Arguments* section we can include the argument type
> >> information in parenthesis just after the argument name such that for
> >> the Mesh::num_entities(uint d) function we will have:
> >>
> >> /// *Arguments*
> >> /// d (integer)
> >> /// Topological dimension.
> >>
> >> instead of what we have now:
> >>
> >> /// *Arguments*
> >> /// d
> >> /// An integer, topological dimension.
> >>
> >> For the former it will be easy to do search and replace to handle the mapping.
> >> What do you think?
> >
> > Sounds like a good solution!
> >
> >
> >
> >> Kristian
> >>
> >> > I see there have been a couple of important bug fixes, including the
> >> > template parse error.
> >> >
> >> > If so, could Johannes update the cronjob to fix this?
> >> >
> >> >
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--
Anders
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