Re: pretty print in Octave

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 07/03/2013 02:51 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 07/03/2013 02:43 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm at the moment in need of some code to pretty print some tables to
> > Octave prompt, something like what `pkg list` is currently doing.
> > `whos' also prints a nice table but a different one and maybe there's
> > other examples but I can't think of one right now. I'm not aware of
> > any function to make such tables, and seems like Matlab doesn't have
> > one.
> >
> > Would you guys think a general purpose pretty print function would be
> > useful? And if so, anyone has any tips on what would be a good API
> > example to follow?
>
> Does the function list_in_columns help, or do you need variable-width 
> columns?
>
> jwe
TeX or LaTeX do this job and much more, and they are already in use in 
Octave.

Michael