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Re: octave html help
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Jonathan Stickel |
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Re: octave html help |
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Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:49:51 -0800 |
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I do have octave-forge installed (via gentoo emerge). No html files
came with it; just the standard text documents:
$ epm -ql octave-forge | grep "doc"
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/COPYING.BSD.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/COPYING.GPL.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/INDEX.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/TODO.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/COPYING.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/AUTHORS.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/RELEASE-NOTES.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/ChangeLog.gz
$ epm -ql octave-forge | grep "man"
/usr/share/man/man1/mex.1.gz
$ epm -ql octave-forge | grep "html"
$
My (limited) understanding of octave vs. octave-forge amounts to this
analogy: octave <-> matlab; octave-forge <-> matlab-toolboxes.
Documentation is something else altogether. In both matlab and octave
you can get help from the command prompt by:
octave> help foo
This requires knowing that "foo" exists, and at times the help you get
here is quite limited. Recent Matlab products (which I no longer use)
come with extensive html based documentation that was browsable and
searchable. The browsable index of functions on octave.sourceforge
seems to be a primative form of this, but still very useful. This is
what I want available locally.
Jonathan
Henry F. Mollet wrote:
I believe it amounts to installing octave-forge in addition to octave. There
is apparently more to octave-forge than just a list of .m files that you're
referring to. I recently asked about the difference between octave and
octave-forge but saw no reply.
Henry
on 2/11/04 12:54 PM, Jonathan Stickel at address@hidden wrote:
I've found this web-based categorical list of documented octave and
octave-forge functions to be very helpful
(http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/index.html). Is there a way to
download all of this to have locally available on my computer? I'm sure
that there are frequent changes, but a .tar.gz snapshot would be very
helpful.
While on this subject, I am pleased to see that the official octave
manual (http://www.octave.org/doc/octave_toc.html) was updated Nov 2003
and is based on octave 2.1.x. Is the print version that can be
purchased up-to-date as well? I'm thinking about buying a copy.
Jonathan
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