From: guido Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:08:52 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Spelling check and link to report X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=990fb2598f329306d241c538952ac7802960c4ab;p=dealii-svn.git Spelling check and link to report git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@2216 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme.html b/deal.II/doc/readme.html index cd9a3dec97..ba3fb1a64b 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/readme.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/readme.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@

Installation instructions and further information - for deal.II

+ on deal.II This document contains the following sections: Note that we have only tested the library under Unix (extensively @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@

- In case you didn't find your favourite graphics format above it + In case you didn't find your favorite graphics format above it might be of interest that it is quite simple to add it to the list of supported ones (take a look at /base/include/base/data_out_base.h and @@ -101,11 +101,11 @@ The most important result of ./configure is the creation of the file common/Make.global_options. This - file contains compiler options, pathes, etc which you may want to + file contains compiler options, paths, etc which you may want to use in the Makefiles of your own projects. It is definitely a good idea to include it into your Makefile, to allow using the same flags for compilation between library files and the files of your - project, and to access the pathes of the library files. To find + project, and to access the paths of the library files. To find out about the supported flags, take a look at the file.

@@ -174,10 +174,10 @@

  • deal.II/lib/libdeal_II_2d.a: This is the library containing all the classes representing finite element - methods, such as grid handlind, different finite elements, + methods, such as grid handling, different finite elements, etc. Thus suffix _2d obviously indicates that this particularly library was compiled for two spatial dimensions, - but if you told 'make' to do sio, there will also be libraries + but if you told 'make' to do so, there will also be libraries for one and three spatial dimensions. @@ -198,10 +198,10 @@ internal states. These assertions have proven to be an invaluable mean to finding programming bugs since they will almost always abort your program if something goes wrong. In our - experience, more than ninty per cent of all errors are invalid + experience, more than ninety per cent of all errors are invalid parameters (such as vectors having the wrong size, etc) and they are usually found almost instantaneously using the file name and - line number of where the problem occured. + line number of where the problem occurred.

    @@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ allocation has to be made thread-safe; the latter can be done for the C++ standard containers by defining -D__USE_MALLOC. Note that not all parts of the - deal.II library are fully threadsafe (though most are and - multithreaded programs are working well and routinely) and that - gcc's runtime library is not threadsafe unless you configure gcc + deal.II library are fully thread-safe (though most are and + multi-threaded programs are working well and routinely) and that + gcc's runtime library is not thread-safe unless you configure gcc with --enable-threads and recompile it.

  • @@ -258,12 +258,12 @@

    - In our experience, if you want to use ACE on SUNs, you should + In our experience, if you want to use ACE on Sun, you should compile it for pthreads rather than Solaris threads.

    - Note that the multithread support in the library is still + Note that the multi-thread support in the library is still experimental. @@ -339,8 +339,11 @@ libraries shall state the names of the library and their principle authors (at present Wolfgang Bangerth and Guido Kanschat). All written publications are requested to cite the - article W. Bangerth, G. Kanschat: Concepts for Object-Oriented - Finite Element Software - the deal.II Library. + article W. Bangerth, + G. Kanschat: Concepts for Object-Oriented Finite Element + Software - the deal.II Library. It has appeared as + Preprint 99-43 at the IWR, Universität Heidelberg. Note that since our institute is evaluated at regular intervals,