Re: Page 143: octave manual first plot examples

[Quentin Spencere]

Alan Ezust wrote:

> Yeah, I was just taking the first example in the manual and trying it
> out. It's on page 143.  Perhaps that should be updated to use the
> newer API... I assume this one is compatible with matlab whereas the
> previous one was more gnuplot specific?
>  
Acutally, I wrote an update to the plotting section of the manual 
recently for this very reason. John accepted the changes, and I think 
they should be in the manual included with the 2.1.67 snapshot (I 
haven't checked to verify). The manual now indicates that matlab-style 
syntax is preferred, and the documentation for the gplot stuff is at the 
very end of the section. If you run into any other things like this in 
the documentation that make octave harder to use than it needs to be, 
please submit patches, or at least suggestions to the mailing lists. I 
am willing to work on things like this from time to time because it 
saves answering future questions on the mailing lists.

-Quentin



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------