Re: Starting using octave

[JD Cole]

   Here's my two cents on improving the documentation of Octave. It 
would seem that new users of Octave are the most apt to what the manual 
is lacking. However, it is probably a fair assumption that many users 
are not programmers and probably find talk of "patching the appropriate 
file" more than difficult. (Add that to just trying to learn Octave in 
the first place.) The Octave code base is a very large body of work and 
even to those whom are somewhat familiar with its internals, of which I 
am one, working on it proves a bit daunting at times.
   I am curious if we could provide for collecting the *specific* 
suggestions of users to improve the manual, perhaps on the Octave Wiki. 
Then those items could be inserted into the documentation by myself or 
others who are more familiar with the Octave source. I realize that 
help-octave is a similar such forum, however, what I am suggesting is a 
way for regular users to contribute to the project without having to 
become Octave coders.

Any thoughts?

JD



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