Re: About octave reference

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Obada Abu Arisheh
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Thats enough for me. but it's much better to include as part of the octave
> reference manual, for sections that are new with this version, a line "new
> fearure in octave 3.x.x" or "included for the first time with octave 3.x.x"
> which will make an overview of when every feature is added and what will
> work with my version and what's not [this idea is present in python
> documentation, for every new feature added. documetation include with what
> vesion of python it presented for the first time] . this will make octave
> reference manual very practical since if I have the stable release, say,
> 3.6.0 and updates version(s) include some new features and I'm getting any
> manual of octave, say 3.6.3 version, I will see what's included with 3.6.0,
> 3.6.1, 3.6.2 and 3.6.3 and I know that any feature in version higher than
> 3.6.0 will nit work in my octave. This idea is simple, and can be developed
> for much better than what I give here.  wish octave the best. thanks for
> hard work.
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Obada Abu Arisheh
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Dear sir
>> >             adding "What's New" section at the beginning of the
>> > reference or
>> > in a separate pdf file will make it much easier to know new additions to
>> > octave in different releases. Matlab provide a list of the detailed
>> > additions with every minor and major release [refer to Matlab pdf
>> > Documentation to see that in detail:
>> > http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/release-notes.html ]. worm thanks
>> > to
>> > octave team everywhere. thanks for you hard work.
>>
>> Try
>>
>> news()
>>
>> in the Octave prompt. Is that what you refer to?
>
>

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