Commit doc update by Ben.

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@5466 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

diff --git a/deal.II/base/include/base/data_out_base.h b/deal.II/base/include/base/data_out_base.h
index 034ce4db6d8fa4c2801b5f843468a50d3d2ef371..d8c999054ce40348c2267a05983f713b54e4eb46 100644 (file)
--- a/deal.II/base/include/base/data_out_base.h
+++ b/deal.II/base/include/base/data_out_base.h
@@ -283,6 +283,19 @@ class ParameterHandler;
  * (bi-,tri-)linear elements.
  *
  *
+ * @sect3{Tecplot format}
+ *
+ * The @p{write_tecplot} function and the @p{write} function through the @p{tecplot}
+ * parameter write the data in the Tecplot (http://www.amtec.com) FEBLOCK format. The
+ * program supports 1, 2, and 3D data and has features such as contouring, slicing,
+ * drawing streamlines, and animation. Patches are written as a collection of
+ * quadrilaterals in 2D or bricks in 3D, with the nodal values interpolated to
+ * (bi-,tri-) linear elements.
+ *
+ * Future work will write Tecplot binary files directly rather than the current
+ * ASCI text files provided the proper libraries are detected at compile time.
+ *
+ *
  * @sect3{VTK format}
  *
  * This is the file format used by the Visualization Toolkit (VTK, see