Plotting with Octave 3.0
Ben Abbott
bpabbott at mac.com
Fri Sep 26 06:07:05 CDT 2008
On Sep 26, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
>> Also, according to the document you mentioned, people are expected to
>> know diff, texinfo, and mercurial. I am sure that most Octave users
>> who would agree to submit their stuff are not used to working with
>> these tools, so they won't submit their work. Is there a way to get
>> around this? If so, this should be explained in the above document,
>> too.
>
> This is the main obstacle to improving documentation, in my opinion.
> Maybe it could be possible to have the manual on a wiki, so that
> people
> can make corrections directly there? I know it would not work, but
> starting from this idea, maybe someone more knowledgeable than me on
> web
> applications could devise something...
There is a wiki and it could use a few more active advocates.
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CategoryManual
Ben
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