Re: List of contributors in the manual

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Oct-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| John W. Eaton skrev:
| > On 14-Oct-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| > 
| > | 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?
| > 
| > The contributors.in file is not autogenerated, but I think it might be
| > better to change the formatting for the smallbook version instead of
| > altering the names.  Unfortunately, I see no quick way to change the
| > formatting based on the size (@ifsmallbook or similar).
| Currently it seems that the smallbook targets are generated by calling
|    texi2dvi -t @smallbook
| Couldn't we replace this with
|    texi2dvi -t @set make_smallbook
| And then add
|    @ifset make_smallbook
|    @smallbook
|    @end ifset
| to octave.texi ? We would then have a test that would be similar to 
| @ifsmallbook.

OK, I'd consider a working patch.

Thanks,

jwe