Re: Extract docstrings from my functions

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:58 PM, c. wrote:

> On 28 Dec 2012, at 01:14, Johan Ekh wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> How can I extract my texinfo docstrings from all my functions and create a 
>> pdf manual?
>> I've never used texinfo before, so please be gentle.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Johan
> 
> Some time ago I started working on a package which is meant to do this:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11522/tree/trunk/octave-forge/extra/generate_latex/
> 
> it is not finished yet, so producing a working LaTeX document might still 
> require some manual 
> adjustments, but I think it mitght serve as a good starting point.
> 
> Notice that texinfo can produce TeX output but not proper LaTeX, so what I 
> did was to include 
> the docstrings as text inside a \verbatim environment and manage the indexing 
> separately.
> 
> HTH,
> c.

For those who want to try this out ...

        svn checkout 
svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/octave/code/trunk/octave-forge/extra/generate_latex 
generate_latex

and then cd to the generate_latex folder ...

        cd inst
        addpath (pwd (), "-end")
        savepath ()

Ben