Re: dump_demos [was: Outerposition Patch]

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 
>> ons, 09 02 2011 kl. 19:28 +0000, skrev bpabbott:
>> 
>>>> dump_demos.m and friends are becoming a valuable debugging tool. Can
>>>> we commit them to Savannah?
>>>> 
>>>> - Jordi G. H.
>>> 
>>> I like the suggestion. One problem is that the dump_demos.m script
>>> produces a script with syntax errors. Essentially, when the syntax is
>>> tweaked to work under Matlab, some features are missed. I'll take a
>>> look at the details. Maybe it is possible to have the resulting script
>>> run error free under Octave.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> The problem is that some demos are written in Octave syntax (i.e. using
>> " for strings, "endfor" to stop loops and so forth). This required me to
>> make some hacks in the code to semi-automatically create matlab
>> compatible code; this is just a mess. It would be more simple if the
>> demos could be changed to be matlab compatible.
>> 
>> Søren
> 
> I've pushed a change to allow all demo scripts to be converted to Matlab 
> syntax using Soren's simple approach.
> 
>       http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a754c2d8a13f
> 
> Soren, if it's ok with you, I'll prepare a changeset to push dump_demos.m as 
> well as a script I wrote to produce your html web-page.
> 
> Ben

I have more work to do, but the link below illustrates the result I get now 
(tip 12437)

        http://homepage.mac.com/bpabbott/12437/compare_plots.html

Ben