Comment 2 for bug 997350

There is information in the FEniCS book (as I pointed out in the previous post), but I feel that

 * converting between different mesh formats is one of the first things a new user of FEniCS libraries needs to do, so he should be able to get basic information about it in the relevant part of the tutorial [1] or in the Fundamentals section [2].

 * in the book it is (too) difficult to find instructions for converting between different formats, because the book has 700+ pages, the table of contents has no entry mentioning mesh formats and the chapter 10.3.2 that deals with meshes is quite thorough and developer oriented (too thorough for someone who wants just quick instructions on how to convert his gmsh mesh to fenics mesh).

I think that just a couple of extra lines in the tutorial (see my previous post) would save me (and other newbies) a lot of time.

[1] http://fenicsproject.org/documentation/tutorial/prepro.html
[2] http://fenicsproject.org/documentation/tutorial/fundamentals.html