[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#492168: octave3.0: shading doc unclear and poor default shading for pcolor

[Francesco Potorti`]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 1:3.0.1-4
Severity: minor

The doc for shading say that three values are avalaible: flat, interp,
faceted.  I understand the first and last, but the middle one is
apparently like faceted.  I could help rewrite the docs if someone can
explain me how.

One more thing: the pcolor command starts by default as faceted.  I find
this very ugly and unclear.  Is this really intentional?  I would
definitely use flat as the default.

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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-21.5        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-1.6           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.18.2-5          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3.1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-2         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.1-2           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0               4.28-3            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-0.5         library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080308-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.4-1+lenny2      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-9          calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-2           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.1.0   3.1.0-3           collection of libraries for comput
ii  texinfo                4.11.dfsg.1-4     Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.2-1.1  A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libatlas3gf-base              3.6.0-21.5 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra

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