Minor edits to the documentation of CommunicationPatternBase.

diff --git a/include/deal.II/lac/communication_pattern_base.h b/include/deal.II/lac/communication_pattern_base.h
index 39537f5c5b4546968f098ce454e0a4b85c4396b0..25cf10669bb03f2f171e685c67054dd5cc8e2c7b 100644 (file)
--- a/include/deal.II/lac/communication_pattern_base.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/lac/communication_pattern_base.h
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ namespace LinearAlgebra
    * CommunicationPattern is an abstract class that is used to define a
    * communication plan that can be called repeatedly to efficiently obtain
    * off-processor elements. The idea is to decouple the communication pattern
-   * from the vectors. The goal is to reuse the same communication pattern for
-   * different vectors. This is similar to the way SparseMatrix and
-   * SparsityPattern works.
+   * from the data that needs to be communicated. The goal is to reuse the same
+   * communication pattern for different containers.
+   * This is similar to the way SparseMatrix and SparsityPattern works.
    *
    * @author Bruno Turcksin, 2015.
    */
@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ namespace LinearAlgebra
     virtual ~CommunicationPatternBase() = default;
 
     /**
-     * Reinitialize the communication pattern. The first argument @p
-     * vector_space_vector_index_set is the index set associated to a
-     * VectorSpaceVector object. The second argument @p
-     * read_write_vector_index_set is the index set associated to a
+     * Reinitialize the communication pattern. The first argument
+     * `vector_space_vector_index_set` is the index set associated to a
+     * VectorSpaceVector object. The second argument
+     * `read_write_vector_index_set` is the index set associated to a
      * ReadWriteVector object.
      */
     virtual void
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ namespace LinearAlgebra
            const MPI_Comm &communicator) = 0;
 
     /**
-     * Return a constant reference to the underlying mpi communicator.
+     * Return a constant reference to the underlying MPI communicator.
      */
     virtual const MPI_Comm &
     get_mpi_communicator() const = 0;