Re: things for 3.0

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Oct-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| David Bateman wrote:
| > John W. Eaton wrote:
| >   
| >>   * Update the refcard.
| >>   
| >>     
| > What are you looking for exactly for this? The attached patch is an
| > incomplete attempt at addressing this. What else needs documenting.. We
| > have to limit it to 8 columns to allow the "Legal" format to fit on two
| > pages, and thats not much space to document all of Octave..
| >
| > D.
| >   
| I think the attached is a better version of this.. There really isn't
| much space and so this is always going to be incomplete, and you might
| choose to list different functions than I did.. I chose to remove the
| section of sets, but include sections on multi-dimensional arrays,
| sparse matrix, cell arrays, structures, function handles, paths and
| packages. This fits just into 8 columns (4 per page) on US legal paper..

I was hoping to do exactly this so that important core features are
listed and less important things are dropped.  I also wanted to be
sure that we weren't documenting obsolete features.

I've checked it in.

Thanks,

jwe