Re: Octave Manual

[Gerald Ebberink]

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Patches for the manual or patches for octave... I would not mind helping 
out on the first.. but being a laser technician I would not be a lot of 
help for the latter.

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  2-Dec-2003, Zine Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | Actually, its worse than that.  It is for version 2.0.13,
>
> Yes and no.  The basic text of the manual has not been updated much in
> several years, but a large change was made for the 2.1.x series such
> that the doc strings for functions that appear in the manual are now
> extracted directly from the Octave source, so any changes to those
> descriptions are reflected in the manual.  Yes, it would help if some
> of those doc strings were updated to better match the current code,
> and some others are probably missing.  The hard part about fixing the
> latter problem is just deciding where they should be inserted in the
> manual.  If people help out by providing patches instead of just
> complaining about the lousy state of affairs on the lists, then things
> might improve a bit faster.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe
>
>
>
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Ing. Gerald Ebberink
Laser Technician

Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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The Netherlands
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Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

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