Re: mcode.sty for LaTeX

[Richard Crozier]

On 29/05/2013 16:55, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On May 29, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Richard Crozier wrote:
>
> > 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
> Its available on the howtotex server.
>
>         http://howtotex.com/download/mcode.zip
>
> Ben

Yes, but it looks like they got it from the file exchange.
Richard



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