Re: Octave Manual

[John W. Eaton]

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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