[cig-commits] commit 2369 by bangerth to /var/svn/dealii/aspect

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Revision 2369

Adjust the description of one figure slightly.

U   trunk/aspect/doc/manual/manual.tex


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Modified: trunk/aspect/doc/manual/manual.tex
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--- trunk/aspect/doc/manual/manual.tex	2014-03-26 20:33:43 UTC (rev 2368)
+++ trunk/aspect/doc/manual/manual.tex	2014-03-27 15:04:14 UTC (rev 2369)
@@ -1430,7 +1430,7 @@
 well as a postprocessor that generates graphical output for visualization.
 
 While the screen output is useful to monitor the progress of a simulation,
-it's lack of a structured output makes it not useful for later plotting things
+its lack of a structured output makes it not useful for later plotting things
 like the evolution of heat flux through the core-mantle boundary. To this end,
 spect{} creates additional files in the output directory selected in the
 input parameter file
@@ -1562,21 +1562,29 @@
 
   A simple way to plot the contents of this file is shown in Section~
ef{sec:viz-stat}.
 
-\item 	extit{Depth average statistics:} Similar to the
-  	exttt{output/statistics} file, spect{} can generate depth-average
-  statistics into 	exttt{output/depthaverage.plt}. This is done by the
-  ``depth average'' postprocessor and the user can control how often this
-  file is updated.
+\item 	extit{Output files generated by other postprocessors:} Similar to the
+  	exttt{output/statistics} file, several of the existing
+  postprocessors one can select from the parameter file generate their
+  data in their own files in the output directory. For example, spect{} can
+  write depth-average statistics into 	exttt{output/depth\_average.gnuplot}.
+  This is done by the ``depth average'' postprocessor and the user can control
+  how often this file is updated, as well as what graphical file format to use
+  (if anything other than 	exttt{gnuplot} is desired).
 
-  The data is written in text format that can be easily displayed by
-  e.g. gnuplot. For an example, see Figure 
ef{fig:depthaverage}. The plot
+  By default, the data is written in text format that can be easily displayed
+  by e.g. gnuplot. For an example, see Figure 
ef{fig:depthaverage}. The plot
   shows how an initially linear temperature profile forms upper and lower
   boundary layers.
 
 egin{figure}[tbp]