diff --git a/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi b/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi index 84e32f10f406c1509687286a0ff344ff50d557dc..9b822d30222e52f92af84afc61a8ac1a77d5b6da 100644 --- a/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi +++ b/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ \input texinfo.tex @c -*-texinfo-*- -@c $Id: gmsh.texi,v 1.143 2004-10-24 19:49:09 geuzaine Exp $ +@c $Id: gmsh.texi,v 1.144 2004-10-25 17:02:19 geuzaine Exp $ @c @c Copyright (C) 1997-2004 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle @c @@ -2204,14 +2204,17 @@ Gmsh's post-processing module can handle multiple scalar, vector or tensor data sets along with the geometry and the mesh. The data sets should be given in one of Gmsh's post-processing file formats described in @ref{File formats}. Once loaded into Gmsh, scalar fields can be displayed as iso-value -lines and surfaces or color maps, whereas vector and tensor fields can be -represented either by three-dimensional arrows or by displacement maps. In -Gmsh's jargon, each data set is called a ``view'', and can arbitrarily mix -all types of elements and fields. Each view is given a name, and can be +lines and surfaces or color maps, whereas vector fields can be represented +either by three-dimensional arrows or by displacement maps. (Tensor fields +are currently displayed as Von-Mises effective stresses. To display other +(combinations of) components, use @code{Plugin(Extract)}: see +@ref{Post-processing plugins}.) + +In Gmsh's jargon, each data set is called a ``view'', and can arbitrarily +mix all types of elements and fields. Each view is given a name, and can be manipulated either individually (each view has its own button in the GUI and -can be referred to by its index in the scripting language) or globally (see -the @code{PostProcessing.Link} option in @ref{Post-processing -options}). +can be referred to by its index in a script) or globally (see the +@code{PostProcessing.Link} option in @ref{Post-processing options}). By default, Gmsh treats all post-processing views as three-dimensional plots, i.e., draws the scalar, vector and tensor primitives (points, lines, @@ -2303,11 +2306,11 @@ Saves the the @var{expression}-th post-processing view in a file named Creates a new post-processing view, named @code{"@var{string}"}. This is the easiest way to create a post-processing view, but also the least efficient (the view is read through Gmsh's script parser, which can become a bit slow -if the view is very large---e.g., with more than 500,000 elements). Though, +if the view is very large---e.g., with one million elements). Nevertheless, this ``parsed'' post-processing format (explained in detail in @ref{Parsed post-processing file format}) is very powerful, since all the values are @var{expressions}. Two other formats, better suited for very large data -sets, are described in @ref{ASCII post-processing file format} and +sets, are described in @ref{ASCII post-processing file format}, and @ref{Binary post-processing file format}. @end ftable