Add a short tutorial to the FDS guides

[emanuelegissi]

As proposed last time we met in the US, I have been thinking of addressing the issue of novice users impacting on the huge and complex FDS users' guide. The same questions keep repeating on the discussion group.

I played a little with the idea of adding a short tutorial doc to the existing FDS guides.

By using the \usepackage{catchfilebetweentags} LaTeX package it is possible to automatically copy paste tagged text from the other guides into the tutorial. So, once set up, the tutorial should be 90% self updating.

I attach an example of what I mean and a proposed content structure.

This proposal is 99% self contained. The only modification to the other guides would be adding tags for text to be copied like this:

%*<tut:tag1>
Text to be copy-pasted
%/<tut:tag1>

The inserted tags are LaTeX comments, so no interference there.

I can contribute the tutorial, based on a previous doc I wrote and training experience.

[emanuelegissi]

Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_kDrv8UNshqSqL0QP2cqVFQ57r0R1FV0?usp=sharing

[mcgratta]

The link requires permission.

[emanuelegissi]

Sorry, should work now

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[mcgratta]

I am looking at old issues and it appears that this one fell through the cracks. I blame the pandemic.

The link above no longer works. Is there another example somewhere of how this could work?

[emanuelegissi]

In fact at the time I had tried experimenting with copy-pasting the text from the UG into an hypothetic tutorial, but the resulting text did not come out very well. You had to make a much too many edits and adaptations. So I thought that it would be easier to just write it from scratch as a wiki, to lower the barrier to new contributions and maintenance.

Currently I would suggest going with something like: Github + Jekyll with continuous integration.

I suggest the Just the docs Jekyll template, that supports Latex equations and Mermaid diagrams out of the box.