Re: mcode.sty for LaTeX

[Ben Abbott]

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