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improve documentation of LatticeVectors input parameter

In case both LatticeVectors and LatticeParameters are defined, we should clarify how the unit cell is constructed by Octopus. A couple of questions which I can’t find explicit answers for in the documentation:

  1. Does LatticeVectors need to be normalized by the user?
  2. Does LatticeVectors change the size of unit cell parameters defined by LatticeParameters?

Also, the tutorial is not correct on this: “LatticeVectors defines the direction of the vectors, while LatticeParameters defines their length.” From that statement I expect the the answers to the questions above to be

  1. No
  2. No

which is apparently not the case!

Edited by Meisam Tabriz