[cig-commits] r6119 - long/3D/Gale/trunk/documentation

sue at geodynamics.org sue at geodynamics.org
Mon Feb 26 15:36:01 PST 2007


Author: sue
Date: 2007-02-26 15:35:58 -0800 (Mon, 26 Feb 2007)
New Revision: 6119

Modified:
   long/3D/Gale/trunk/documentation/gale.lyx
   long/3D/Gale/trunk/documentation/gale.pdf
Log:
typos fixed, todo's added in order to begin improving user manual flow

Modified: long/3D/Gale/trunk/documentation/gale.lyx
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--- long/3D/Gale/trunk/documentation/gale.lyx	2007-02-26 22:01:47 UTC (rev 6118)
+++ long/3D/Gale/trunk/documentation/gale.lyx	2007-02-26 23:35:58 UTC (rev 6119)
@@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@
 \begin_layout Standard
 If you downloaded binaries for your platform, you can run the Gale executable
  directly.
- For example
+ For example,
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout LyX-Code
@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
-This will output 
+will output 
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout LyX-Code
@@ -1053,7 +1053,9 @@
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
-If you do not specify an input file, you will get a cryptic error
+If you do not specify an input file, you will get a cryptic error (TODO:
+ need better description.
+ If cryptic, why not fix it?)
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout LyX-Code
@@ -1071,7 +1073,15 @@
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
-If Gale can not find the file, you will get a better error
+If Gale cannot find the file, you will get a better error (TODO: 
+\begin_inset Quotes sld
+\end_inset
+
+better
+\begin_inset Quotes srd
+\end_inset
+
+ error awkward, need some other description)
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout LyX-Code
@@ -1089,8 +1099,7 @@
 
 \begin_layout Standard
 Due to quirks in some implementations of MPI, you may have to specify the
- complete path to the input file (e.g.
- 
+ complete path to the input file (e.g., 
 \family typewriter
 ./Gale-1_1_1 /home/juser/gale/input/extension.xml
 \family default
@@ -1116,9 +1125,8 @@
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
-If you compiled Gale yourself, then you can run it from where you installed
- it.
- If running in parallel, then just prepend 
+If you compile Gale yourself, you run it from where you installed it.
+ If running in parallel, prepend 
 \family typewriter
 mpirun
 \family default
@@ -1127,14 +1135,33 @@
 mpiexec
 \family default
 .
- The extension example should run for 500 time steps and generate a great
- deal of output in the 
+ The 
 \family typewriter
+extension.xml
+\family default
+ example should run for 500 time steps and generate a great deal of output
+ in the 
+\family typewriter
 output.extension
 \family default
  directory.
- There are also examples of shortening, subduction, and relaxation of a
- sinusoid.
+ There [TODO: 
+\begin_inset Quotes sld
+\end_inset
+
+you will find
+\begin_inset Quotes srd
+\end_inset
+
+ instead of 
+\begin_inset Quotes sld
+\end_inset
+
+are also
+\begin_inset Quotes srd
+\end_inset
+
+?] are also examples of shortening, subduction, and relaxation of a sinusoid.
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
@@ -1172,23 +1199,15 @@
 \color none
 .vtk
 \family default
- files
-\color default
-.
- 
-\color none
-The formats of the 
+ files.
+ The formats of the 
 \family typewriter
-\color default
 .dat
 \family default
-\color none
  and 
 \family typewriter
-\color default
 .txt
 \family default
-\color none
  files are described fully in Appendix 
 \begin_inset LatexCommand \ref{cha:Output-File-Format}
 
@@ -1242,19 +1261,20 @@
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
+(TODO: example of what changing dumpEvery will look like.)
+\end_layout
 
+\begin_layout Standard
+
 \color none
 There are a number of different options for visualizing the data.
  The easiest way is to use the 
 \family typewriter
-\color default
 .vtk
 \family default
-\color none
  files.
  These files are in a standard, self-describing file format that can be
- easily visualized with several different visualization programs (e.g.
- 
+ easily visualized with several different visualization programs, e.g., 
 \begin_inset LatexCommand \htmlurl[ParaView]{paraview.org}
 
 \end_inset
@@ -1269,7 +1289,7 @@
 
 \end_inset
 
-).
+.
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
@@ -1285,6 +1305,7 @@
 \begin_layout Standard
 The last option is to use a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
  This is very limited.
+ (TODO: in what way?)
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Subsection
@@ -1449,7 +1470,6 @@
 \color none
 fields.00010.vtk
 \family default
-\color default
 , graying it out.
 \newline
 
@@ -1464,8 +1484,8 @@
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Enumerate
-Now you can plot the velocity as arrows on top of the pressure by first
- clicking on the ``Glyph'' symbol
+Now you can plot the velocity as arrows on top of the pressure: Click on
+ the ``Glyph'' symbol
 \newline
 
 \newline
@@ -1479,7 +1499,8 @@
 \newline
 
 \newline
-and then pressing the green ``Accept'' button.
+and then press the green ``Accept'' button.
+ The result will look like this:
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_deeper
@@ -1510,13 +1531,13 @@
 
 \end_deeper
 \begin_layout Enumerate
-You can also visualize the Strain Rate Invariant.
- You start by clicking on the greyed-out eye next to 
+You can also visualize the Strain Rate Invariant: Click on the grayed-out
+ eye next to 
 \family typewriter
 \color none
 fields.00010.vtk
 \family default
- and then clicking on the ``Display'' tab.
+, and then click on the ``Display'' tab.
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_deeper
@@ -1547,8 +1568,8 @@
 
 \end_deeper
 \begin_layout Enumerate
-You finish by clicking on the drop down list to the right of ``Color by''
- and selecting ``Point StrainRateInvariantField.''
+Finish by clicking on the drop down list to the right of ``Color by'' and
+ selecting ``Point StrainRateInvariantField.''
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_deeper
@@ -1579,7 +1600,7 @@
 
 \end_deeper
 \begin_layout Enumerate
-The last thing to look at is the particles.
+Now look at the particles.
  Starting over, open 
 \family typewriter
 \color none
@@ -1722,8 +1743,7 @@
 PlotGaleOutput
 \end_layout
 
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_layout Enumerate
 Using Octave to visualize the 10th step of 
 \family typewriter
 input/extension.xml
@@ -1731,6 +1751,7 @@
  results in
 \end_layout
 
+\begin_deeper
 \begin_layout Standard
 \begin_inset Graphics
 	filename images/Octave_fig1.png
@@ -1766,10 +1787,12 @@
 
 \end_layout
 
-\begin_layout Standard
+\end_deeper
+\begin_layout Enumerate
 Using Matlab results in
 \end_layout
 
+\begin_deeper
 \begin_layout Standard
 \begin_inset Graphics
 	filename images/Matlab_fig111.png
@@ -1792,6 +1815,8 @@
 
 \end_layout
 
+\end_deeper
+\end_deeper
 \begin_layout Subsection
 Visualization with Excel
 \end_layout
@@ -2023,6 +2048,10 @@
 
 \end_layout
 
+\begin_layout Section
+Introduction
+\end_layout
+
 \begin_layout Standard
 In this chapter, you will edit a template file (
 \family typewriter
@@ -2031,13 +2060,17 @@
 ) to create customized input files.
  You should be able to use the template file as a basis for most of your
  own input files.
- The two things that might need modification are that the force of gravity
- is set to 1, and the normal velocities on all boundaries except the top
- are set to zero.
+ There are two things in the template file, however, that might need modificatio
+n: the force of gravity, which by default is set to 1, and the normal velocities
+ on all boundaries except the top, which are set to zero.
  Beyond that, you only need to add where different materials are placed
  initially.
 \end_layout
 
+\begin_layout Subsection
+Adding Lines to the Template File
+\end_layout
+
 \begin_layout Standard
 Unless otherwise specified, when you are instructed to add something
 \begin_inset Foot
@@ -2074,6 +2107,10 @@
  in the middle of another component, although indentation is not critical.
 \end_layout
 
+\begin_layout Subsection
+Adding Variables to the Template File
+\end_layout
+
 \begin_layout Standard
 When you are instructed to add a variable, you must add it at the end of
  the file before the closing line
@@ -2084,7 +2121,7 @@
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
-Finished versions of all of these examples are in 
+Finished versions of all of these examples are found` in 
 \family typewriter
 input/cookbook
 \family default
@@ -2101,7 +2138,7 @@
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Standard
-This example just fills up the computational domain with a single viscous
+This example simply fills up the computational domain with a single viscous
  material.
 \end_layout
 
@@ -2289,7 +2326,7 @@
  In this example, you will make the material extend by having the right
  boundary move.
  This simple model is the basis for many problems of current interest involving
- lithospheric and crustal extension.
+ lithospheric and crustal extensions.
 \end_layout
 
 \begin_layout Enumerate
@@ -2466,7 +2503,7 @@
 
 \end_inset
 
-Strain rate invariant and velocities of viscous material in extension.
+Strain rate invariant and velocities of viscous material in extension
 \end_layout
 
 \end_inset
@@ -2657,7 +2694,7 @@
 Warning: 
 \series default
 \color none
-Do not add it in the list named 
+Do not add them in the list named 
 \family typewriter
 ``variables
 \family default
@@ -2856,7 +2893,7 @@
 \begin_layout Standard
 and add the variables at the end of the file (just before 
 \family typewriter
-</StGermain/Data>
+</StGermainData>
 \family default
 )
 \end_layout
@@ -2979,14 +3016,15 @@
  Normally, Gale looks at nearby particles and replicates them.
  However, nearby material has already changed a little from the boundary,
  so replicating them will not give the new particles the correct properties.
-\newline
-To
- fix that, create a thin layer next to the boundary where material is created
- anew.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_deeper
+\begin_layout Standard
+To fix that, create a thin layer next to the boundary where material is
+ created anew.
  To do that, first create this shape
 \end_layout
 
-\begin_deeper
 \begin_layout LyX-Code
 <struct name="leftBoundaryShape">
 \end_layout
@@ -3092,7 +3130,7 @@
 
 \end_inset
 
-Strain rate invariant and velocities with inflow/outflow boundaries.
+Strain rate invariant and velocities with inflow/outflow boundaries
 \end_layout
 
 \end_inset
@@ -3716,7 +3754,7 @@
 
 \end_inset
 
-Strain rate invariant and velocities with multiple viscous materials.
+Strain rate invariant and velocities with multiple viscous materials
 \end_layout
 
 \end_inset
@@ -4018,7 +4056,7 @@
 
 \end_inset
 
-Strain rate invariant and velocities of yielding material in extension.
+Strain rate invariant and velocities of yielding material in extension
 \end_layout
 
 \end_inset

Modified: long/3D/Gale/trunk/documentation/gale.pdf
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