Re: Output format problem

Am 20. September 2021 um 22:13 Uhr schrieb "Nicholas Jankowski":
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> > I did read the documentation, and found it less than clear. No doubt it is all quite clear to those who already know it, but to those who do not, not so much.
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> Appreciate the feedback.  there have been a few changes to this section of the manual in recent years, but I did notice just when looking for the specific links to send you that I had to hunt for what I was trying to find, and I knew what I was looking for.  (e.g., the help for the printf function says to see the Formatted Output section of the manual for the full details about how to use the formatted string, but this was on the Formatted Output section, and the information wasn't there. )


That might probably be chapter 14.2.6 and 14.2.7:
https://octave.org/doc/v6.3.0/Output-Conversion-Syntax.html
https://octave.org/doc/v6.3.0/Table-of-Output-Conversions.html

In the PDF manual those chapters are pretty close to each other. On the web site and in the Qt help browser it needs a few clicks to get from one to the other though...

Like you already wrote: Suggestions to improving the manual are always very welcome.
Please, post patches to the bug tracker:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave

Markus



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