A first version of the robust recovery algorithm has been

commited. It allows to remove self intersecting meshes in
the 2d mesh generation process. It only applies now to
gmsh native CADs. Those limitations will quicky go away

Mesh/meshGFace.cpp

-// $Id: meshGFace.cpp,v 1.94 2007-10-11 14:34:04 remacle Exp $
+// $Id: meshGFace.cpp,v 1.95 2007-10-11 14:44:01 remacle Exp $
 //
 // Copyright (C) 1997-2007 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
 //
@@ -945,8 +945,8 @@ bool gmsh2DMeshGenerator ( GFace *gf , int RECUR_ITER, bool debug = true)
 
   if (edgesNotRecovered.size())
   {
-    Msg(WARNING,"%d mesh edges intersect in the 1d mesh of model face %d",edgesNotRecovered.size(),gf->tag());
-    Msg(WARNING,"Gmsh now refine those edges and tries again (ITER %d)",RECUR_ITER);
+    Msg(WARNING,":-( There exists %d intersections in the 1d mesh",edgesNotRecovered.size());
+    Msg(WARNING,"8-| Gmsh splits those edges and tries again");
     std::list<GFace *> facesToRemesh;
     remeshUnrecoveredEdges ( edgesNotRecovered, facesToRemesh);
     delete m;
@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ bool gmsh2DMeshGenerator ( GFace *gf , int RECUR_ITER, bool debug = true)
     return false;
   }
   if (RECUR_ITER > 0)
-    Msg(WARNING," :-) Gmsh was able to recover all edges using at ITER %d ",RECUR_ITER);
+    Msg(WARNING,":-) Gmsh was able to recover all edges after %d ITERATIONS",RECUR_ITER);
 
   //  Msg(INFO,"Boundary Edges recovered for surface %d",gf->tag());
   // Look for an edge that is on the boundary for which one of the