Re: Fw: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#471273: Section 14.1.4: Rational Approximations

[Thomas Weber]

cc'ing Drew, who brought this up initially.

On 13/04/08 11:56 -0700, dbateman wrote:
> > I've noticed that in the octave documentation section 14.1.4 documented
> > a pair of functions used to generate rational approximations.
> > 
> > Section 14 concerns Input and Output and Sect 14.1 is for Basic Input
> > and Output, so it looked to me that Sect 14.1.4 had got misplaced
> > somehow.
> > 
> > After raising the matter with the Debian octave maintainers, we figured
> > the Rational Approximations were probably in that Section because they
> > can be used as an option to the format() function, Sec 14.1.1.
> > 
> 
> Good guess, that is exactly what I thought when I placed them there.
> 
> 
> 
> > I'm bringing the question to you then, to confirm if you really do want
> > to confine these functions to output only, or whether they have any
> > other broader uses that might warrant placing them in some other section
> > (e.g. Number Theory) ?
> > 
> 
> Sure, perhaps but where? Frankly I don't see another good place for them
> otherwise, and I'd rather not see a chapter of the manual created for two
> functions. Where would you suggest they go?

Uh, personally, I don't have any preference. I just resent Drew's
message after noting that it didn't appear on the list.

        Thomas