> I did read the documentation, and found it less than clear. No doubt it is all quite clear to those who already know it, but to those who do not, not so much.
Appreciate the feedback. there have been a few changes to this section of the manual in recent years, but I did notice just when looking for the specific links to send you that I had to hunt for what I was trying to find, and I knew what I was looking for. (e.g., the help for the printf function says to see the Formatted Output section of the manual for the full details about how to use the formatted string, but this was on the Formatted Output section, and the information wasn't there. )
If you have any specific suggestions on how we could improve this section, please let us know.
Also, we have started moving most of Octave support from the mailing lists over to
https://octave.discourse.group. Please feel free to post any other questions or problems you might have.