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[Václav Šmilauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>]

> Another note : I just realized that I probably failed to reply to some 
> questions in the past, concerning the local coordinate system of 
> contacts. If a local coordinate system is needed, it is handled 
> gracefully in SCGeom, which IS tracking the orientation of the local 
> coordinate system, independant of any incremental/total formulation. I 
> understood this fact had been overlooked while reading this sentence in 
> the doc "A special (mis)feature of DEM is that each contact is oriented 
> only by two points, current positions of both particles (\currC_1 and 
> \currC_2)". First, it is by no mean a "DEM misfeature" (see PFC3D 
> manual), second is not even a Yade misfeature.
> I can fix that in the doc (together with the paragraph on 
> GlobalStiffnessTimeStepper I already mentioned) if you confirm this part 
> of doc is commitable already.
And is the local coordinate system then (what axes?)? Docs are
commitable. 

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