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Re: Better quadrature routine in octave
From: |
Jaroslav Hajek |
Subject: |
Re: Better quadrature routine in octave |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:51:58 +0200 |
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Pedro Gonnet <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> Just a technical question: I've been trying to compile the texinfo file
> below and texi2[pdf|dvi] fails as follows:
>
> address@hidden:~/work/octave$ texi2dvi contrib.txi
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> file:line:error style messages enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./contrib.txi
> ./contrib.txi:56: You can't use `macro parameter character #' in
> horizontal mod
> e.
> l.56 #
> make a local copy of the octave
> ? q
>
> I know close to nothing about texinfo, so any help on how to process
> this file into a more readable format is more than welcome!
>
> Cheers and thanks,
> Pedro
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 23:44 +0200, David Bateman wrote:
>> Yeah the manual has a section on this.. Though the manual on the
>> website
>> is wayyyyy out of date, so see
>>
>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/tip/doc/interpreter/contrib.txi
>>
>> instead.
>
>
Maybe you need to update texinfo? In any case, these are not true
texinfo files, they're supposed to be first preprocessed using
munge-texi, which inserts the docstrings for functions, extracted from
Octave.
If you're unable to do a complete build, an up-to-date copy of the
manual is here:
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~hajej2am/ulozna/octave.pdf
--
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz
- Better quadrature routine in octave, Pedro Gonnet, 2010/03/30
- Re: Better quadrature routine in octave, David Bateman, 2010/03/30
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- Re: Better quadrature routine in octave, Pedro Gonnet, 2010/03/31
- Re: Better quadrature routine in octave,
Jaroslav Hajek <=
- Re: Better quadrature routine in octave, Michael D Godfrey, 2010/03/31
- Re: Better quadrature routine in octave, Pedro Gonnet, 2010/03/31
- Re: Better quadrature routine in octave, Michael D Godfrey, 2010/03/31
- Re: Better quadrature routine in octave, Pedro Gonnet, 2010/03/31