Re: How to generate octave pdf document

[Peng Yu]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Martin Helm <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 15.10.2011, 14:12 -0500 schrieb Peng Yu:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It say on http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/docs.html,
>>
>> "You can also use those same source files to create a printed copy of
>> the manual,..."
>>
>> /tmp$ texi2pdf  /opt/local/share/info/octave.info
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>> entering extended mode
>> (/opt/local/share/info/octave.info
>> /opt/local/share/info/octave.info:34: Text line contains an invalid 
>> character.
>> l.34 Node: Top^^?
>>                  838
>> ? q
>>
>>
>> I tried the above command and got errors. Could anybody let me know
>> how to generate the pdf copy?
>>
>
> I think you should use that command on the texi file
> texi2pdf octave.texi
> instead of
> texi2pdf octave.info

Thanks. I generated the pdf manual.

Just one suggestion to the octave doc web page maintainers (in case
they read my email): many other software have manual in different
formats (take a look at many gnu software), I think that it is
probably better to put a few alternative document formats (including
pdf) for octave online as well.

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Regards,
Peng