From sources-request at octave dot org Mon Jun 21 02:43:35 2004
Subject: Re: Patch for documentation, revised
From: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
To: Federico Zenith <zenith at chemeng dot ntnu dot no>
Cc: sources at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:39:38 +0200

Federico,

Have you done a "./configure; make" of the sourec with your changes? Yoiu
had several build errors previously, that were included in the revised version
of your patch I sent last week...

Regards
David

Daprès Federico Zenith <zenith at chemeng dot ntnu dot no> (le 20/06/2004):
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> Hi all,
> This is again my patch with some further fixes I have added after noticing 
> some minor nuisances and reading a bit better texinfo documentation.
> 
> The vander() code modification has been removed, though the documentation uses 
> now an indexing more consistent with Octave rather than C++ (starts with 
> c(1)).
> 
> There is only a very minor code modification, in DEMOcontrol(), where a 
> missing semicolon has been added. If you start DEMOcontrol(), you'll see an 
> annoying ans = 0 beside the title (unless you turned function echoing off).
> 
> This time I have added a ChangeLog with the most significant changes, but I 
> don't think I am able to separate the patches; this would take quite a long 
> time and, unless it's absolutely necessary, I would prefer to avoid it. 
> Presently I am not aware of a .diff file editor that allows editing out parts 
> of patches, and manually changing the number of lines in the patch breaks it 
> as the context line numbers are not consistent anymore (and I don't know how 
> they work anyway).
> Most modifications are concentrated in the Control section.
> 
> Cheers,
> - -Federico
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> octave-2.1.57-documentation.patch
> Federico Zenith, zenith AT chemeng DOT ntnu DOT no
> 
> * Reordering of trigonometric functions in arith.txi
> * Taking out some obsolete sections (prefer_zero_one_indexing)
> * Adding  at acronym, @cite tags (mostly in control section
> * Fixing some minor typos and inconsistencies
> * Introducing {\cal H}_\infty for H-infinity and likewise for H-2.
> * Adding some missing function documentation, fixing some existing so it looks more consistent.
> * adding  at group tags so that ASCII-diagrams do not split up in documentation, and @example tags so they stay ASCII.
> * Introducing some ``'' instead of "
> * Rewriting some equations in TeX-specific code inside  at iftex brackets
> * Replacing NOT with  at strong{not}
> * Using the  at command tag for function names when possible
> * Using { \rm T } to indicate transpose (T is not a variable and should be written upright)
> 
> 
> * One change in code: added a ; at the end of line 49 in function DEMOcontrol, to remove an annoying ans=0 on call of the function.

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