From help-request at octave dot org Sat Jan 7 15:18:31 2006 Subject: Re octave-forge DOCSTRINGS From: David Bateman To: Jorge Barros de Abreu , Help-Octave Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:16:44 +0100 ./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 ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------