.. _build-poly:

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Building POLY Models
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This appendix describes the :program:`build_poly` executable, which
builds a composite polytropic stellar model and writes it to a file in
the :ref:`POLY format <poly-file-format>`.

.. toctree::
  :maxdepth: 2

  build-poly/installation.rst
  build-poly/example-simple.rst
  build-poly/example-composite.rst
  build-poly/input-files.rst