3. Typography in documentation IMPR_RESU

To fully understand the IMPR_RESU documentation, it should be noted that the term “RESULTAT” includes three quite different concepts in Code_Aster:

• a type of concept,

• a file type,

• a writing format.

In fact, on the one hand, result refers to the quantities produced by an Aster calculation operator producing several fields (evolutionary calculation, natural mode calculation, etc…).

These data (results) are contained in an Aster data structure of a generic type called result. This generic type comes in subtypes, for example mode_meca, evol_elas, etc., whose storage mode differs somewhat. A results-type concept has only one subtype. In the Aster documentation the concept type names are in lower case Courier.

On the other hand, the results intended for printing, in particular those from IMPR_RESU, are entered into a file designated by file RESULTAT (associated with unit 8, type resu in astk). The writing format associated with this file intended for printing is also called RESULTAT.

In summary:

result	data from the resolution of the system,
result	generic designation of the type of concept (of the data structure) that contains the result,
evol_ther mode_meca	name of the subtype of the result type result,
FICHIER	(without quote) designation of the file that contains the results, regardless of the format of its content,
“RESULTAT”	(with quotes) designation of the format (Aster) of the file that contains the results.