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Re: Generating package HTML for Octave Forge
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Daniel Kraft |
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Re: Generating package HTML for Octave Forge |
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Fri, 6 Jun 2014 07:12:18 +0200 |
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Hi!
On 2014-06-05 17:07, c. wrote:
>>> 1) For functions with multiple signatures (for instance,
>>> ls_solve_stationary [4]), the HTML looks very odd (with the second
>>> signature intended). It looks fine in Octave's help. Is this expected
>>> behaviour of generate_html, or is my Texinfo syntax wrong to produce
>>> this kind of output?
>>>
>>> [4] http://extra.domob.eu/level-set/function/ls_solve_stationary.html
>>
>> I suspect this may be due to Texinfo 5. Are you able to run
>> generate_html using Texinfo 4? I keep a copy of Texinfo 4.13 around and
>> set Octave's makeinfo_program to point to it when building package HTML.
>> I don't remember specifically which problems were due to Texinfo 5, but
>> there are some.
>>
>>> 2) A lot of functions have demos, but with *none* of them the resulting
>>> HTML includes a correct picture. Is this a problem with my installation
>>> of generate_html, or a bug in it? It happens even if I add a trivial
>>> demo like
>>>
>>> x = linspace (-pi, pi, 100);
>>> plot (x, sin (x));
>>
>> And I think this is due to FLTK not being able to print non-visible
>> figures. If you set graphics_toolkit to gnuplot for building package
>> HTML docs you should get the correct demo plots.
Thank you, I will try this out!
> Please note that generate_html also currently creates a wrong navigation
> toolbar
> on help pages which contains an "SVN" link pointing to
> "https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code"
>
> This should be changed to "http://octave.sourceforge.net/code.html" and the
> link name should be changed to "Code".
>
> A patch to fix this would be very welcome.
Yes, I noticed that, too. I'll try to patch it. (Should be easier than
editing everything by hand.)
Yours,
Daniel
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