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Re: FEniCS documentation

 

Sounds good, I hope Kristian can give you some instructions on what
you can help out with.

--
Anders


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:40:11AM -0400, Nathan Borggren wrote:
> Hello,
>      If anybody is interested I'd be willing to help with some documentation
> efforts.  My background is in math and physics and tend to work exclusively on
> the python end of things when computers get involved.  I've been working with
> FEniCS for maybe a month or two so am rather a novice on that end but
> nonetheless I've been using python and doing functional analysis for a long
> time and perhaps could contribute.  If some of the demos need transcriptions to
> a latex readable/physicist readable format like the new Poisson documentation I
> could be of aid.  I'm currently working with diffusion equations and could help
> in that direction particularly.  How could I lend a hand?
>        Nathan Borggren
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:15:21AM +0200, Kristian Oelgaard wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 27 April 2010 09:51, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     > >I think the new structure looks very good. A couple of suggestions:
>     > >
>     > >1. Perhaps "Documenting FEniCS" should be part of "Contributing to
>     > >FEniCS"? It seems it otherwise gets a too prominent place in the
>     > >overview. I expect there will be very few people interested in
>     > >knowing how to write documentation (unfortunately).
>     >
>     > Which I why I decided to promote it on the front page! :)
>     > But I agree that it fits more naturally in the Contributing part.
>     > I'll move it.
>     >
>     > >2. Should "User Manual" be renamed "Programmer's reference?"
>     >
>     > Yes, I think that is a better name for what it really is (will be).
>     >
>     > Kristian
>
>     ok, great.
>
>     Now we just need some contents...
>
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