Re: HTML documentation - one file per function

[David Bateman]

John Swensen wrote:
>
> On May 3, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
>> lør, 03 05 2008 kl. 11:54 -0400, skrev John Swensen:
>>> Is there a way to process the docstrings so as to create one file per
>>> function?  I have started work on OctaveDE again and want to make a
>>> help browser.  I can simply use the existing HTML documentation, but
>>> would prefer to have it in the format of one HTML file per function.
>>> I would then try to work in cross referencing and the like.  Has
>>> someone already done this before?
>>
>> You mean like the Function Reference at the Octave-Forge web site,
>> http://octave.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html ?
>>
>> Søren
>>
>
> Would it be too much to ask someone who has access to the webserver to
> zip/tgz up all the HTML from the "Function Reference" portion of the
> website and send it to me offline.  I have been fighting trying to get
> it to build off-and-on for 2 days now and can't get it to do all of
> it.  I have the DOCSTRINGS from octave in place, but it won't generate
> the pages for interpreter functions.

You need to have a directory hierarchy

<toplevel>/octave-forge
<toplevel>/octave

Where the octave directory is built.. The interpreter functions then
found by running the built version of Octave in the directory under the
octave-forge directory.

Sorry however I don't have a built version at the moment.

D.


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