Re: new snapshot patches

[Rik]

>
> Subject:
> new snapshot
> From:
> "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> Date:
> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:25:33 -0400
> To:
> octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
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> To:
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>
> As I mentioned recently, I would like to make a new snapshot this
> week.  Are there any patches or bug reports that should be addressed
> before I do that?  I know about the one Ben posted earlier today.  I
> would also like to try to fix the problem with the SKIP parameter when
> writing to existing files (we should skip and not write NUL in that
> case).  Is there anything else?
>   
3/25/09

John,

I've put a bunch of changesets for the documentation up on the Savannah
tracker.  There are 49 .texi files to review and I'm about 1/3 of the
way through.  It takes about an hour per .texi file because when I need
to make a change I have to hunt through the code to discover whether the
texinfo came from a .m file, a .cc file, or somewhere else.  I'm
thinking of going ahead and doing all the .m files at once.  It will
create a big changeset but will be scads more efficient on my side. 

Along the way I've been creating some tools that should help in the
future.  I'm thinking, in particular, of a 'spell' dictionary of Octave
words that I am managing.  If added to the repository it should be
possible to quickly spellcheck all new documentation.  I also have a
grammar checking script which might be useful.  It enforces some
consistency of style such as two spaces after a period at the end of a
sentence and Matlab referred to as '@sc(Matlab)'.

Cheers,
Rik