Re: Documentation for ode solver options

[Carlo de Falco]

Il 16 ott 2016 7:06 PM, "Rik" <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>
> 10/16/16
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> Carlo,
>
> One of the goals of Octave is to be a viable replacement for Matlab.
> However, when I look at the ode solvers, and the list of options returned
> from odeset, there is no documentation for the 23 possible tuning
> parameters for the algorithms.  This is okay for people who just need to
> run m-files that they have already developed and debugged in Matlab.  But
> we're not a good replacement if we say that you *must* use Matlab
> documentation in order to understand how to code in Octave.
>
> Documentation changes can be made on the stable branch at any time, so this
> doesn't need to hold up the 4.2 release.  But it would be nice to have this
> done as early as possible, maybe for the 4.2.1 bug fix release.  I filed a
> bug report to keep track of this:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?49360.
>
> --Rik
>

Jacopo,

IIRC such documentation is present in the odepkg manual. Could you prepare a patch to move it into the odeset help?

c.