Re: Correcting mistakes in the documentation

[David Bateman]

The macro @DOCSTRING is octave's way of including the same text as in the
help strings of the functions themselves. This help is in the functions,
be it an m-file, or whatever. For your case of PS4, the help string is 
found in src/input.cc. Look for "DEFVAR (PS4"..

Regards
David




According to Federico Zenith <address@hidden> (on 06/02/04):
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> Hi,
> I have read the octave.dvi manual file, and reading it I have found a few 
> mistakes. However, I can't figure out what I have to fix so I can submit a 
> patch.
> 
> Example: in section 2.4.7,  subsection PS4, "--echo-input" should be 
> substituted by "--echo-commands". I tried to figure out how the system 
> worked, and I think I should edit the .txi files, being all others generated 
> by them. However, in basics.txi, the subsections about PS1, PS2 and PS4 are 
> empty:
> - -----------------------
> .
> .
> @item \\
> A backslash.
> @end table
> 
> @DOCSTRING(PS1)
> 
> @DOCSTRING(PS2)
> 
> @DOCSTRING(PS4)
> 
> @node Diary and Echo Commands
> .
> .
> - ------------------------
> 
> Can anyone point me to the right file? The string is present in 
> octave.info-1, 
> but this is also a machine-generated file, not a source.
> All this in source package octave-2.1.57.tar.bz2 .
> 
> Cheers,
> - -Federico
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