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[Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 May 2011 12:05, Kristian Ølgaard <k.b.oelgaard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 23 May 2011 11:20, Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is this documented somewhere? Since it is a UFL argument, it should be
>> documented in UFL.
>
> It's not documented anywhere I think. True, it is a UFL argument, but
> UFL doesn't know anything about quadrature schemes and I don't think
> it needs to. The argument just has to be a string, then it's up to the
> form compilers how to deal with the argument.
> FFC currently supports two different schemes, the 'default' scheme
> which is the hardcoded quadrature schemes which Garth implemented and
> the 'canonical' scheme which is a Gauss--Legendre--Jacobi quadrature
> scheme mapped onto simplices.

Ok. And why does a FiniteElement need to have an associated a quad scheme?

Martin