Re octave-forge DOCSTRINGS

[David Bateman]

./admin/make_index will create an index in html from of all of the 
functions listed in one of the INDEX files if run in the head of 
octave-forge and octave itself is placed in ../octave relative to this 
point. This is what is used to create the category index on the 
octave-forge home page. If its not in one of the INDEX files its 
probably an internal function (or maybe a new function that wasn't 
indexed when introduced), so this is probably what you want...

If run from a sub-directory of octave-forge make_index outputs to the 
standard output, the first sentence of every function description in the 
INDEX file in the current directory. This is useful if you ever want to 
create a contents.m file.

Finally I created a function a long time back to get the help as a 
string, as part of an early thread about Soren's package manager on 
octave-forge. See the message

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4850715&forum_id=4874

this might also be of help to you...

Cheers
David



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