Re: Output format problem

[Markus Mützel]

Am 20. September 2021 um 22:13 Uhr schrieb "Nicholas Jankowski":
>
> > 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. )


That might probably be chapter 14.2.6 and 14.2.7:
https://octave.org/doc/v6.3.0/Output-Conversion-Syntax.html
https://octave.org/doc/v6.3.0/Table-of-Output-Conversions.html

In the PDF manual those chapters are pretty close to each other. On the web 
site and in the Qt help browser it needs a few clicks to get from one to the 
other though...

Like you already wrote: Suggestions to improving the manual are always very 
welcome.
Please, post patches to the bug tracker:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave

Markus