From 96b349c60a757e354fcf2e006100544084e874e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 20:51:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update comment. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@7857 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/deal.II/include/dofs/dof_tools.h | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/deal.II/deal.II/include/dofs/dof_tools.h b/deal.II/deal.II/include/dofs/dof_tools.h index 924f5ccb8a..cdad522ab0 100644 --- a/deal.II/deal.II/include/dofs/dof_tools.h +++ b/deal.II/deal.II/include/dofs/dof_tools.h @@ -813,7 +813,17 @@ class DoFTools * it shall be counted as. Having * the same number entered * several times sums up several - * components as the same. + * components as the same. One of + * the applications of this + * argument is when you want to + * form block matrices and + * vectors, but want to pack + * several components into the + * same block (for example, when + * you have @p{dim} velocities + * and one pressure, to put all + * velocities into one block, and + * the pressure into another). * * The result is returned in * @p{dofs_per_component}. -- 2.39.5