Re: How to generate octave pdf document

[Vlăduţ Frăţiman]

I do not know which version you use, but at latest there is pdf version.
U can find'it in doc/interpreter/octave.pdf

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Martin Helm <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Am Samstag, den 15.10.2011, 14:12 -0500 schrieb Peng Yu:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It say on http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/docs.html,
>>>
>>> "You can also use those same source files to create a printed copy of
>>> the manual,..."
>>>
>>> /tmp$ texi2pdf  /opt/local/share/info/octave.info
>>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
>>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>>> entering extended mode
>>> (/opt/local/share/info/octave.info
>>> /opt/local/share/info/octave.info:34: Text line contains an invalid 
>>> character.
>>> l.34 Node: Top^^?
>>>                  838
>>> ? q
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried the above command and got errors. Could anybody let me know
>>> how to generate the pdf copy?
>>>
>>
>> I think you should use that command on the texi file
>> texi2pdf octave.texi
>> instead of
>> texi2pdf octave.info
>
> Thanks. I generated the pdf manual.
>
> Just one suggestion to the octave doc web page maintainers (in case
> they read my email): many other software have manual in different
> formats (take a look at many gnu software), I think that it is
> probably better to put a few alternative document formats (including
> pdf) for octave online as well.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peng
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