SOFA Documentation

This documentation contains all informations about SOFA, from historical presentation to developper instructions.
It is automatically rendered in SOFA website: https://www.sofa-framework.org/doc

Content

• Main Principles: everything you need to know about what is SOFA and how it works.
• Getting Started: instructions about building and installing SOFA.
• Using SOFA: how to use SOFA to build and run simulation scenes (user documentation).
• Programming with SOFA: how to write your own code using SOFA (developper documentation).
• Contributing to SOFA: guidelines and tools to help you proposing fixes and features in SOFA.
• Advanced User: technical documentation about specific SOFA components.

Contribution

Everyone is very welcome to contribute to this documentation. Here are some information you have to read.
Files are written in Markdown. If you don't understand the syntax, you can refer to [this usefull cheatsheet] (https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet).

Order

Files are parsed in alphabetical order. To change some file/folder order in the hierarchy, you can simply edit its number.

• 10_Folder_A
  • 10_File_AA.md
  • 20_File_AB.md
  • 30_File_AC.md
• 20_Folder_B
  • 21_File_BA.md

Will become

• Folder A
  • File AA
  • File AB
  • File AC
• Folder B
  • File BA

Naming

Page title and URL depend on file name.
File name become page title following this principles: 10_Folder_A -> Folder A and 10_File_AA.md -> File AA
File name become page url following this principles: 10_Folder_A -> folder-a and 10_File_AA.md -> file-aa

WARNING: Changing file or folder names (except numbers and case) will change page URL. Use with caution.