Re: Plotting with Octave 3.0

[Ivan Sutoris]

I think similar project to what you describe (editing documentation
through wiki) exists for NumPy, so taking a look at that may be of
some help:
http://www.scipy.org/Developer_Zone/DocMarathon2008

Ivan Sutoris

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden> wrote:
>>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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