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+ <title>The deal.II Homepage</title>
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+
+ <h2>Online documentation</h2>
+
+ <p>
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym> comes with quite extensive online
+ documentation, which falls into several categories. They are
+ listed below.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <h4>README file</h4>
+ <p>
+ The <a href="readme.html" target="body">README file</a> of
+ the library. It gives information on system requirements,
+ installation, and copyright.</p>
+
+ <h4>Tutorials</h4>
+
+ <p>
+ The <a href="tutorial/index.html" target="_top">tutorial</a>:
+ for new users of the library. It explains the basic elements of
+ finite element programs based on the library, and provides small
+ example programs.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Another chapter of the tutorial gives an overview of information
+ classified by subject. This is more for reference than to learn
+ about the library the first time.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <h4>Programming interface</h4>
+
+ <p>
+ These are the pages you will need most often as a reference of
+ all classes, functions and variables in the library. They are
+ extensively documented (presently approximately 1250 pages if
+ printed), and are split into several parts, according to the
+ sub-libraries and the different directories of the main
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym> library:
+ <ul>
+ <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/base/index.html" target="body">
+ <code>/base</code> library</a>: a set of classes not
+ specifically related to finite elements, but
+ nonetheless important for the overall library,
+ <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/lac/index.html" target="body">
+ <code>/lac</code> library</a>: <em>L</em>inear
+ <em>a</em>lgebra <em>c</em>lasses,
+ <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/grid/index.html" target="body">
+ Grid handling</a> in the
+ <code>/deal.II</code> library,
+ <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/dof/index.html" target="body">
+ Degrees of freedom and finite elements</a> in the
+ <code>/deal.II</code> library,
+ <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/numerics/index.html" target="body">
+ Numerical tools</a> in the
+ <code>/deal.II</code> library.
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+
+
+ <h4>Development information</h4>
+
+ <p>
+ If you plan to <a href="development/index.html"
+ target="_top">develop your own applications</a> using
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym>, it might be worth to take a look
+ at <a href="development/index.html" target="_top">this
+ page</a>.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <h4>Reports</h4>
+
+ <p>
+ We have a few reports written on <acronym>deal.II</acronym>,
+ the following of which are online:
+ <ul>
+ <li> <p>
+ A <a href="reports/deal.II-paper/index.html" target="body">
+ paper describing the background, purpose and methods</a>
+ of <acronym>deal.II</acronym>, by Wolfgang Bangerth and
+ Guido Kanschat. This paper is also available as preprint
+ 99-43 from the
+ <a href="http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de" target="_top">
+ IWR preprint server</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ <li> <p>
+ A brief report about the classes involved in the
+ <a href="reports/class-hierarchies/index.html"
+ target="body">iterators</a>
+ used to access cells in the triangulations and the data
+ thereon, such as their geometry, the number of the
+ degrees of freedom, data values, etc. (by Wolfgang Bangerth).
+ </p>
+
+ <li> <p>
+ A report on how
+ <a href="reports/multithreading/index.html"
+ target="body">multithreading</a> is implemented and
+ supported in <acronym>deal.II</acronym> (by Wolfgang
+ Bangerth).
+ </p>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+
+
+ <h4>Publications</h4>
+
+ <p>
+ A <a href="publications/toc.html" target="body">list of
+ publications</a> about and based on
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym> can be found on
+ <a href="publications/toc.html" target="body">this</a> page.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <h4>Future</h4>
+
+ <p>
+ Finally, we have a page where we list our
+ <a href="future.html" target="body">plans for extensions of deal.II in
+ the future</a>.
+ </p>
+
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
<h2>Online documentation</h2>
+ <p>
<acronym>deal.II</acronym> has quite extensive online
- documentation, which falls into several categories:
- <ul>
- <li> <p>The <a href="readme.html" target="body">README</a> file of
- the library. It gives information on system requirements,
- installation, and copyright.</p>
-
- <li> <p>The <a href="tutorial/index.html" target="_top">tutorial</a>:
- for new users of the library. It
- explains the basic elements of finite element programs based
- on the library, and provides small example programs.</p>
-
- <li> <p> If you plan to
- <a href="development/index.html" target="_top">develop
- your own applications</a> using
- <acronym>deal.II</acronym>, it might be worth to take a look
- at <a href="development/index.html" target="_top">this
- page</a>.
- </p>
-
- <li> <p>Programming interface documentation: the classes and methods
- in the library are extensively documented (presently
- approximately 1250 pages if printed). This API documentation
- is split into several parts, according
- to the sub-libraries and the different directories of the main
- <acronym>deal.II</acronym> library:
- <ul>
- <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/base/index.html" target="body">
- <code>/base</code> library</a>: a set of classes not
- specifically related to finite elements, but
- nonetheless important for the overall library,
- <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/lac/index.html" target="body">
- <code>/lac</code> library</a>: <em>L</em>inear
- <em>a</em>lgebra <em>c</em>lasses,
- <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/grid/index.html" target="body">
- Grid handling</a> in the
- <code>/deal.II</code> library,
- <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/dof/index.html" target="body">
- Degrees of freedom and finite elements</a> in the
- <code>/deal.II</code> library,
- <li> <a href="auto/kdoc/numerics/index.html" target="body">
- Numerical tools</a> in the
- <code>/deal.II</code> library.
- </ul>
- </p>
+ documentation, so we dedicated a
+ <a href="documentation.html" target="body">separate
+ page on documentation</a> to this subject.
+ </p>
- <li> <p> We have a few reports written on <acronym>deal.II</acronym>,
- the following of which are online:
- <ul>
- <li> <p>
- A <a href="reports/deal.II-paper/index.html" target="body">
- paper describing the background, purpose and methods</a>
- of <acronym>deal.II</acronym>, by Wolfgang Bangerth and
- Guido Kanschat. This paper is also available as preprint
- 99-43 from the
- <a href="http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de" target="_top">
- IWR preprint server</a>.
- </p>
-
- <li> <p>
- A brief report about the classes involved in the
- <a href="reports/class-hierarchies/index.html"
- target="body">iterators</a>
- used to access cells in the triangulations and the data
- thereon, such as their geometry, the number of the
- degrees of freedom, data values, etc. (by Wolfgang Bangerth).
- </p>
-
- <li> <p>
- A report on how
- <a href="reports/multithreading/index.html"
- target="body">multithreading</a> is implemented and
- supported in <acronym>deal.II</acronym> (by Wolfgang
- Bangerth).
- </p>
- </ul>
- </p>
- <li> <p>
- A <a href="publications/toc.html" target="body">list of
- publications</a> about and based on
- <acronym>deal.II</acronym> can be found on
- <a href="publications/toc.html" target="body">this</a> page.
- </p>
+ <p>
+ Those parts of the online documentation that are most often
+ accessed are the API references. For your convenience, they are
+ also listed in the navigation panel on the left.
+ </p>
- <li> <p> Finally, we have a page where we list our
- <a href="future.html" target="body">plans for extensions of deal.II in
- the future</a>.
- </p>
- </ul>
<H2>Authors</H2>
+ <p>
<acronym>deal.II</acronym> was originally designed and written by
<a href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~wolf/" target="_top">Wolfgang
Bangerth</a>, starting in early 1998; he is still maintaining and
Kanschat</a> helped with advice in the early
implementation stages on questions of the design of object-oriented
finite element software and later joined into the coding.
+ </p>
<p>
-
Other contributors, in alphabetical order, are:
<UL>
<LI><em>Ralf Hartmann:</em>
<LI><em>Franz-Theo Suttmeier:</em>
initial parts of the linear algebra.
</UL>
+ </p>
<H2>License</H2>
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