Remove 'level' argument of evalf().

[ginac.git] / doc / tutorial / ginac.texi

diff --git a/doc/tutorial/ginac.texi b/doc/tutorial/ginac.texi
index aa01956aa3157df50e02ef38ca1daf8bceff1bc3..a8c537971edbfbdf0aceee5ad9c3988c726c7dd3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/tutorial/ginac.texi
+++ b/doc/tutorial/ginac.texi
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 This is a tutorial that documents GiNaC @value{VERSION}, an open
 framework for symbolic computation within the C++ programming language.
 
-Copyright (C) 1999-2015 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
+Copyright (C) 1999-2016 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
 
 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
 this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ notice identical to this one.
 
 @page
 @vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-Copyright @copyright{} 1999-2015 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
+Copyright @copyright{} 1999-2016 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
 @sp 2
 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
 this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ the near future.
 
 @section License
 The GiNaC framework for symbolic computation within the C++ programming
-language is Copyright @copyright{} 1999-2015 Johannes Gutenberg
+language is Copyright @copyright{} 1999-2016 Johannes Gutenberg
 University Mainz, Germany.
 
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -3330,6 +3330,15 @@ Note that the call @code{clifford_unit(mu, minkmetric())} creates
 something very close to @code{dirac_gamma(mu)}, although
 @code{dirac_gamma} have more efficient simplification mechanism. 
 @cindex @code{get_metric()}
+Also, the object created by @code{clifford_unit(mu, minkmetric())} is
+not aware about the symmetry of its metric, see the start of the pevious
+paragraph. A more accurate analog of 'dirac_gamma(mu)' should be
+specifies as follows:
+
+@example
+    clifford_unit(mu, indexed(minkmetric(),sy_symm(),varidx(symbol("i"),4),varidx(symbol("j"),4)));
+@end example
+
 The method @code{clifford::get_metric()} returns a metric defining this
 Clifford number.
 
@@ -4204,7 +4213,7 @@ GiNaC keeps algebraic expressions, numbers and constants in their exact form.
 To evaluate them using floating-point arithmetic you need to call
 
 @example
-ex ex::evalf(int level = 0) const;
+ex ex::evalf() const;
 @end example
 
 @cindex @code{Digits}
@@ -8314,7 +8323,7 @@ might want to provide:
 
 @example
 bool info(unsigned inf) const override;
-ex evalf(int level = 0) const override;
+ex evalf() const override;
 ex series(const relational & r, int order, unsigned options = 0) const override;
 ex derivative(const symbol & s) const override;
 @end example