[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#471273: Bug#471273: wrong section: 14.1.4 Rational Approximations

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Mon Mar 17 14:14:47 UTC 2008


package octave3.0-info
tags 471273 moreinfo
thanks

* Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> [2008-03-17 11:51]:

> Package: octave3.0-info
> Version: 1:3.0.0-9
> Severity: normal
> 
> In the info docs, Chapter 14 is "Input and Output" and section 14.1
> is "Basic Input and Output". 14.1.1 is "Terminal Output", 14.1.3 is
> "Simple File I/O" etc.
> 
> But section 14.1.4 is titled "Rational Approximations" and refers to
> rat (X, TOL), a rational approximation to X within tolerance defined
> by TOL using a continued fraction expansion.
> 
> Looks like this 14.1.4 is a poor lost orphan.  It should go elsewhere,
> I won't presume to suggest where :)

Well, the rat() and rats() functions are somehow related to output formats.
By the way, "help rat" says "See also: format" and format() has "rat" as a
possible option.

> I'm filing against the info docs, which I use, but I presume it applies
> to octave3.0-doc too.

Yes, this would also apply to octave3.0-doc and octave3.0-htmldoc, since all
forms of documentation are generated from the same TeXinfo sources.

I am not sure this is a bug, though.  If you really think it is, please
reply to this message with further arguments and I will forward the bug
report upstream.

-- 
Rafael





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