[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56929] csvread help text xref to dlmread appears confusingly when displayed in info format

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #56929 (project octave):

@Pantxo: If we want to have 'help' produce plaintext output we could modify
scripts/help/__makeinfo__.m.  The current script produces Info output when
"plain text" is requested, and then cleans it up with a few regular
expressions.  See the code starting at line 128.


    ## Take action depending on output type
    switch (lower (output_type))
      case "plain text"
        cmd = sprintf ('%s --no-headers --no-warn --force --no-validate
--output=- "%s"',
                       makeinfo_program (), name);


If you add "--plaintext" to the invocation of mkinfo then it will the
@ifplaintext macros will work.

Alternatively, we could add another two regular expressions to clean up the
results of the expansion of @pxref and @xref.  See the attached rough patch
which does that.




(file #47563)
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