From bug-request at octave dot org Mon Dec  6 08:34:52 2004
Subject: quaternion package does not use line continuation characters (as  needed ?)
From: emile van rooyen <emile_vanrooyen at stratexnet dot com>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:34:50 -0600

The transaction log follows below. Functions qderiv.m, qderivmat.m,
and qtransvmat.m builds matrices but the source does not contain
line continuation characters so the ; seperating rows is ignored (i think).

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LOADPATH = /d/home/emile/.octave.d/signal:
suppress_verbose_help_message = 1
octave:1> demoquat()
Quaternion function demo (c) 1998 A. S. Hodel, a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu

  [ 1] quaternion construction/data extraction
  [ 2] simple quaternion functions
  [ 3] transformation functions
  [ 4] body-inertial frame demo
  [ 5] Quit

pick a number, any number: 4
Body-inertial frame demo: Look at the source code for
demoquat.m and qcoordinate_plot.m to see how it's done.
ans = 1
yaw=  0.0000, pitch=  0.0000,
    qbi = (  0.0000)i + (0.0000e+00)j + (  0.0000)k + (  1.0000)
      = (vector) = [  0.0000   0.0000   0.0000], th= 0.00 deg
error: operator *: nonconformant arguments (op1 is 9x1, op2 is 3x5)
error: evaluating binary operator `*' near line 59, column 13
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 59, column 8
error: called from `qcoordinate_plot' in file 
`/opt/octave/share/octave/2.1.50/m/quaternion/qcoordinate_plot.m'
error: evaluating for command near line 230, column 7
error: evaluating switch command near line 45, column 5
error: evaluating while command near line 37, column 3
error: called from `demoquat' in file 
`/opt/octave/share/octave/2.1.50/m/quaternion/demoquat.m'



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