Re: Plotting with Octave 3.0

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Sep-2008, Francesco Potorti` wrote:

| >> But how the wiki could be used to improve the manual?
| >>   
| >The hardest part of writing contributions for the manual is generating 
| >the content itself, not the formating of that content. If there was an 
| >actively maintained manual on the wiki, then I think you'd find that 
| >some one was willing to import the good bits into the manual itself..
| 
| Hm.  Let's see if this one could work.
| 
| - someone sets up an editable web site (like a wiki) but with an
|   additional feature: when it is opened, it contains a wikified copy of
|   the manual.  (Either the stable version or the snapshot.)
| 
| - people who want to correct something open the wiki and edit the
|   manual.  Then, after checking all the changes, they press a button
|   that formats the changes and sends them to the maintainers.

If you mean that the Texinfo markup is somehow added manually, then I
don't see how that can happen.

| That would do the job.  However, I do not know how to implement it, and
| some details are missing.

A large portion of the manual comes from the doc strings for indiviual
functions.  Those are inserted into the overall manual during the
Octave build process.  How would you manage that part?

jwe