Re: Plotting with Octave 3.0

[David Bateman]

Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> On 26.09.2008, at 00:23, address@hidden wrote:
>
>   
> > | It seems that
> > | html manual at www.octave.org is outdated (but I'm not Octave
> > | developer, just user, so I don't know why is that).
> >
> > Because there are many things to do and not enough users who are also
> > helping out as developers?
> >
> > jwe
> >     
>
> True. But I have the impression it is not obvious for most useres how  
> to contribute code or improved documentation in a way that will be  
> useful and acceptable to the 'inner circle' of Octave developers.  
> Maybe a short document 'Contributing to Octave for dummies' would be  
> useful. Or, if such a thing exists already, moving this to a  
> prominent place would be in order.
>
> Thinking of it, I might be open to contribute to the documentation a  
> bit. I guess the plotting stuff is one area that really needs  
> improvement. But how do I go about this?
>   

Such a document was recently added to the manual so I suppose it will 
end up on the website eventually. For now the raw text is at

http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/octave/file/a8fb37ae61b8/doc/interpreter/contrib.txi

D.



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