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Preface

This is a MkDocs conversion of the FEBio Studio Manual. The manual was originally authored in LyX (FEBioStudio_User_Manual.lyx) and has been converted to Markdown using the same custom, deterministic converter (tools/lyx2md.py) used for the Theory tab, so it can be published as part of the same searchable, versioned static site with MkDocs and the Material for MkDocs theme. The complete manual is converted — all 20 chapters plus Appendices A (Mesh Import Formats) and B (Standard Data Fields).

Use the Studio tab above to browse by chapter and section.

About this conversion

  • Source: source/FEBioStudio_User_Manual.lyx, a vendored copy of the complete manual, checked into this repository so it builds standalone from a bare clone.
  • Converter: the same tools/lyx2md.py used for the Theory Manual, run as a separate pass with this manual's own LyX/bib source and its own docs/studio/ output tree (see build.py's MANUALS list). Converting this manual surfaced several real converter gaps not present in the Theory Manual's source (e.g. Wrap-figure insets, Description/LyX-Code layouts, a content-loss bug in tables wrapped in a Float table inset) — see CONVERSION_NOTES_STUDIO.md for the full list of fixes.
  • Bibliography: citations are resolved against source/FEBioStudio.bib and rendered as page-level Markdown footnotes, the same as the Theory Manual — though this manual has very few citations, being primarily UI/GUI documentation rather than a theoretical reference.
  • Math: this manual is almost entirely prose and screenshots, not equations — MathJax/\eqref cross-page resolution logic exists in the converter but sees little to no use here.
  • Figures: images that aren't part of this manual's LyX/BibTeX inputs are fetched by build.py from the upstream febiosoftware/FEBioStudio repository at build time.

See CONVERSION_NOTES_STUDIO.md in the repository root for a per-chapter breakdown and every item flagged for manual review.