Re: mcode.sty for LaTeX

[Richard Crozier]

On 29/05/2013 16:27, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On May 29, 2013, at 11:17 PM, Richard Crozier wrote:
>
> > On 29/05/2013 15:12, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > > Does this look useful for us?
> > >
> > >         
> > > http://www.howtotex.com/tips-tricks/how-to-include-matlab-code-in-latex-documents/
> > >
> > > Modifying to suit Octave's syntax looks straight forward.
> > >
> > > Ben
> > I use this a lot, very handy, but since the ultimate source is the ML file 
> > exchange, you should maybe ask the author to email a copy to the list or upload 
> > to CTAN if Octave is going to use it.
> >
> > Richard
> I'm not familiar with how CTAN works.  Will we be able to submit patches to 
> CTAN?
>
> For example, we should add endif, endfor, endwhile, ... to the list of keywords.
>
> Ben

Not really, it's just a package archive. The only advantage of CTAN 
would be that the author could upload it themselves if they were 
interested, for a wider audience, then we could download and modify as 
we wished. It would also be automatically distributed with various TeX 
systems this way as well. This would be extra work though.

It might be better to get a copy from the author, and then maybe host a 
modified version on Octave-Forgeor something, I just thought CTAN was a 
neutral way to sidestep any legal issues.

Richard





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