Re: List of contributors in the manual

[Søren Hauberg]

John W. Eaton skrev:
> On 13-Oct-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> |    In the manual (in the preface) is a list of contributors. This list 
> | looks fairly bad when the manual is in 'smallbook'. Is the list 
> | autogenerated in any way, or can I just send a patch to contributors.texi?
>
> See the rule in doc/interpreter/Makefile.in:
>
>   contributors.texi: contributors.in
>           $(AWK) -f $(srcdir)/mkcontrib.awk $(srcdir)/contributors.in > 
> address@hidden
>           @$(simple-move-if-change-rule)
Is 'contributors.in' autogenerated? If not then the attached patch makes 
things look better with smallbook. I basically shortened peoples names, 
which isn't a very good solution. Would it be better to only use two 
columns when using smallbook, and three columns otherwise?

Søren

--- /home/sh/Download/octave-2.9.15/doc/interpreter/contributors.in     
2007-10-12 08:40:56.000000000 +0200
+++ doc/interpreter/contributors.in     2007-10-14 08:46:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 Peter Ekberg
 Rolf Fabian
 Stephen Fegan
-Ramon Garcia Fernandez
+Ramon G. Fernandez
 Torsten Finke
 Jose Daniel Munoz Frias
 Castor Fu
@@ -57,15 +57,15 @@
 Etienne Grossmann
 Peter Gustafson
 Kai Habel
-William P. Y. Hadisoeseno
+William Hadisoeseno
 Benjamin Hall
 Kim Hansen
-Soren Hauberg
address@hidden Hauberg
 Daniel Heiserer
 Yozo Hida
 Roman Hodek
 A. Scottedward Hodel
-Richard Allan Holcombe
+Richard A. Holcombe
 Tom Holroyd
 David Hoover
 Kurt Hornik
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
 Jim Peterson
 Danilo Piazzalunga
 Nicholas Piper
-Hans Ekkehard Plesser
+Hans E. Plesser
 Tom Poage
 Orion Poplawski
 Ondrej Popp