Re: Finding texinfo errors in OF package docs

[Philip Nienhuis]

Gentlemen,

John Donoghue wrote:
> On 1/4/19 8:09 PM, John Donoghue wrote:
> > > ------------------------------
> > >
> > > Message: 6
> > > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 15:42:01 -0600 (CST)
> > > From: PhilipNienhuis <address@hidden>
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > Subject: Finding texinfo errors in OF package docs
> > > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > During trial installations of OF mapping package several texinfo
> > > errors are
> > > reported along these lines:

Rik wrote:
> > Try temporarily modifying your copy of scripts/help/__makeinfo__.m.
> > Specifically, comment out line 154 where the temporary file is
>> deleted.

Thanks for the helpful suggestions, much appreciated.

Question remains: is there a way to turn those messages into more useful 
ones?


<long snip>

> octave-help-IEvLoR:126: misplaced {  => inst/earthRadius.m seealso is
> missing a @
>
> octave-help-HwNhIo:167: @itemx not meaningful inside address@hidden' =>
> inst/polybool.m itemx lines
>
> octave-help-JbGWy4:117: unknown command `deftypefx' => inst/polyjoin.m,
> deftypefx should be deftypefnx
>
> octave-help-bkikP8:141: @bye seen before @end deftypefn =>
> inst/polycut.m has two deftypefn statements

Thanks John, a good start. Those were only a sample of the 30 or 40 
error messages.

Philip