[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45396] NEWS displayed in Qt GUI omits items which look like HTML

[Rik]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45396>

                 Summary: NEWS displayed in Qt GUI omits items which look like
HTML
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: rik5
            Submitted on: Wed 24 Jun 2015 10:50:28 AM PDT
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 2 - Minor
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Documentation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.0
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

The NEWS file for 4.0.0 contains the following:


 ** The internal class <Octave_map> was deprecated in Octave 3.8 and has
    been removed from Octave 4.0.  Replacement classes are
    <octave_map> (struct array) or <octave_scalar_map> for a single
structure.

 ** The configure option --enable-octave-allocator has been removed.
    The internal class <octave_allocator> declared in oct-alloc.h has
    been removed.  The header remains, but is deprecated.  The macros to
    access the class (DECLARE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR, DEFINE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR,
    and DEFINE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR2) are now unconditionally defined to be
    empty.


The problem is that the HTML viewer which reads the NEWS file and displays it
in the GUI treats the class names which are surrounded by '<' and '>' as
tags.

There might be a way to ask for verbatim display in the Qt viewer, or we could
just use some other delimiter character in the NEWS file.






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