Re: Plotting with Octave 3.0

[Francesco Potorti`]

>I am not sure I understand you. Octave is a GNU project, so it uses
>TeXinfo like other GNU projects, from which you can easily generate a
>plaintext manual if desired.`I think I haven't been following
>sufficiently closely the context of this discussion, though.

I'll try to rephrase, in the hope that someone likes the idea and
implements it.

Currently, if people without time or knowledge of diff, mercurial and so
on want to suggest additions to the manual, they just send the text.  It
has been said that the hard part of improving the manual is producing
the text, the problem of formatting and creating a patch is a minor one.

If this is true, we can make life easy for those who have ideas on how
to improve the manual and want to write parts of it or correct it.

I imagine a web site that, when accessed, displays the current status of
the manual, in text format, as shown by the info program.  The web site
is editable, like a wiki.  People that want to add or correct something
just edit it like a wiki, then save it.  The modifications do not appear
on the site, but rather are formatted into a diff that goes to the
developer's mailing list.  Obviously all this can be improved, but even
this bare functionality may attract people that want to improve the
manual.

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