From sources-request at octave dot org Thu Jun 17 10:09:23 2004 Subject: Re: Patch for documentation From: David Bateman To: Federico Zenith Cc: sources at octave dot org Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:05:14 +0200 in io.txi the change you made states "Note that Octave cannot yet save or load structure variables or any user-defined types." This is no longer true, with the proviso that the user-defined type implements the necessary functionality... D. According to Federico Zenith (on 06/17/04): > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > I already asked some questions underway in other mailing lists, so some of you > may already know what I have been doing. > > I began noticing some annoying mistakes in Octave's documentation, which was a > pity since it is such a good one. Especially, I wanted to fix the appearance > of H-infinity in TeX, which is supposed to be done in a calligraphic style. > Then, I noticed some non-grouped system flowsheets, some mistakes here and > there, and some other nuisances--Well, why not fix that too. > > I ended up putting about a week's time in this patch, which I hope will be > useful. It is meant to be applied on Octave version 2.1.57. > Many function's documentation has been corrected, sometime almost rewritten, > many nuisances removed. In one case I modified a function, vander(), as its > definition seemingly followed a less common standard. > And yes, H-infinity and H-2 do look better now. > > The patched sources compile on my machine, and the result seems to be fine. > > Problems to be addressed: > - - it seems that Octave follows a varargin-like structure, but in its > documentation a previous, deprecated system is described, with va_arg and > such. Since I don't know how the system has been changed, I could not fix > this. > - - function hinfsyn_ric and lqg have pretty ugly documentation, but since I did > not understand their notation 100% I did not modify them radically. > > Cheers, > - -Federico > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFA0a7jcbPv7l8OLpsRAuIUAJ4iVIdnNh3XlEEGO+6P+pBSOZgDuQCbB7n1 > +TkP8jdc5b6w+PkRSCOJMy0= > =iIgK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- David Bateman David dot Bateman at motorola dot com Motorola CRM +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph) Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax) 91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE The information contained in this communication has been classified as: [x] General Business Information [ ] Motorola Internal Use Only [ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary