Re: octave html help

[Jonathan Stickel]

I do have octave-forge installed (via gentoo emerge).  No html files
came with it; just the standard text documents:

$ epm -ql octave-forge | grep "doc"
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/COPYING.BSD.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/COPYING.GPL.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/INDEX.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/TODO.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/COPYING.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/AUTHORS.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/RELEASE-NOTES.gz
/usr/share/doc/octave-forge-2003.02.22/ChangeLog.gz
$ epm -ql octave-forge | grep "man"
/usr/share/man/man1/mex.1.gz
$ epm -ql octave-forge | grep "html"
$

My (limited) understanding of octave vs. octave-forge amounts to this
analogy:  octave <-> matlab; octave-forge <-> matlab-toolboxes.

Documentation is something else altogether.  In both matlab and octave
you can get help from the command prompt by:

octave> help foo

This requires knowing that "foo" exists, and at times the help you get
here is quite limited.  Recent Matlab products (which I no longer use)
come with extensive html based documentation that was browsable and
searchable.  The browsable index of functions on octave.sourceforge
seems to be a primative form of this, but still very useful.  This is
what I want available locally.

Jonathan


Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> I believe it amounts to installing octave-forge in addition to octave. There
> is apparently more to octave-forge than just a list of .m files that you're
> referring to. I recently asked about the difference between octave and
> octave-forge but saw no reply.
> Henry
>
>
> on 2/11/04 12:54 PM, Jonathan Stickel at address@hidden wrote:
>
>
> > I've found this web-based categorical list of documented octave and
> > octave-forge functions to be very helpful
> > (http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/index.html).  Is there a way to
> > download all of this to have locally available on my computer?  I'm sure
> > that there are frequent changes, but a .tar.gz snapshot would be very
> > helpful.
> >
> > While on this subject, I am pleased to see that the official octave
> > manual (http://www.octave.org/doc/octave_toc.html) was updated Nov 2003
> > and is based on octave 2.1.x.  Is the print version that can be
> > purchased up-to-date as well?  I'm thinking about buying a copy.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
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