Hi,

ffc looks for the variables a, L or M to generate a form, so you should 
use L  instead of L2, so that ffc notices it.

regards,
patrick

Jehanzeb Hameed wrote:
> I cant figure out how to generate a form file for norm, in C++. The
> problem is that the form is quadratic in its arguments, and so isn't a
> valid form according to ffc user manual. I tried it anyway, making a
> file like this (just for testing):.
> 
> vecElement = VectorElement("Lagrange", "triangle", 1,3)
> u = Function(vecElement)
> L2 = dot(u,u)*dx
> 
> ffc doesnt make .h file, and exits with the following message:
> 
> "No forms or elements specified, nothing to do."
> 
> I tried compiling by "ffc -r quadrature l2norm.form", and again got
> the same message.
> 
> Can someome please help amd point out what I can do?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jehanzeb
> 
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Anders Logg<l...@simula.no> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:58:20AM -0500, Jehanzeb Hameed wrote:
>>> Thanks. So I guess that means no such facility is available in C/C++ ?
>> No, since the computation depends on the space the functions are in
>> and so the code needs to be generated. In C++, you need to define a
>> form file for the norm. Look at
>>
>>  site-packages/dolfin/norm.py
>>
>> for how to define the norms.
>>
>> --
>> Anders
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Anders Logg<l...@simula.no> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:11:48PM -0500, Jehanzeb Hameed wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a builtin function in dolfin to compute L^2 or H_1 norms? If
>>>>> so, can you please point it out. If not, are there support functions
>>>>> (e.g. a Gauss Quadrature table, computation of Jacobians, etc) which
>>>>> can help in this?
>>>> Yes, this is available in the DOLFIN Python interface:
>>>>
>>>>  norm(v)
>>>>
>>>> The default computes the L^2 norm. Several options are available:
>>>>
>>>>  L^2:     norm(v, 'L2')
>>>>  H^1:     norm(v, 'H1')      includes L^2 term
>>>>  H^1_0:   norm(v, 'H10')     does not include L^2 term
>>>>  H(div):  norm(v, 'Hdiv')    includes L^2 term
>>>>  H(div):  norm(v, 'Hdiv0')   does not include L^2 term
>>>>  H(curl): norm(v, 'Hcurl')   includes L^2 term
>>>>  H(curl): norm(v, 'Hcurl0')  does not include L^2 term
>>>>
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