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<book>

<bookinfo>
    <date>$Revision$ $Date$</date>
    <title>Da Coda Al Fine</title>
    <subtitle>Pushing Octave's Limits</subtitle>

    <revhistory>
        <revision>
            <revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
            <date>2001-2-21</date>
            <authorinitials>cls</authorinitials>
            <revremark>Initial revision</revremark>
        </revision>

        <revision>
           <revnumber>0.2</revnumber>
           <date>2004-02-06</date>
           <authorinitials>sjw</authorinitials>
           <revremark>Corrections, unit testing improved</revremark>
        </revision>
    </revhistory>

    <authorgroup>
        <author>
            <firstname>Christoph</firstname>
            <othername>L.</othername>
            <surname>Spiel</surname>
            <affiliation>
                <orgname>Hammersmith Consulting</orgname>
            </affiliation>
        </author>

    </authorgroup>

    <copyright>
        <year>2000</year>
        <holder>Ch. L. Spiel</holder>
    </copyright>

    <copyright>
        <year>2004</year>
        <holder>Stefan van der Walt</holder>
    </copyright>

    <legalnotice>
        <para>
            Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
            document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
            Version&nbsp;1.1 or any later version published by the Free
            Software Foundation; with no invariant sections, with the
            Front-Cover Texts being <quote>Da Coda Al Fine</quote>, and with no
            Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the
            appendix <quote>GNU Free Documentation License</quote>.
        </para>

        <blockquote>
            <para>
                Copyrights:
            </para>

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                        <row>
                            <entry>
                                <trademark class =
                                "copyright">GNU/Linux</trademark> by Linus
                                Torvalds
                            </entry>
                        </row>

                        <row>
                            <entry>
                                <trademark class =
                                "copyright">Octave</trademark> by John
                                W.&nbsp;Eaton
                            </entry>
                        </row>

                        <row>
                            <entry>
                                <trademark class =
                                "registered">Matlab</trademark> is a registered
                                trademark by The MathWorks, Inc.
                            </entry>
                        </row>
                    </tbody>
                </tgroup>
            </informaltable>
        </blockquote>
    </legalnotice>

    <abstract>
        <para>
            &octave-app; is the <trademark class =
            "registered">Matlab</trademark>-clone which comes closest to the
            original.  Though it tries to be fully compatible, it features its
            own extensions and improvements over the functionality of the
            commercial <trademark class = "registered">Matlab</trademark>
            product.
        </para>

        <para>
            &octave-app; is shipped with a 340+ page reference manual, which
            also tries to be a bit of a user guide.  Despite its size the
            documentation is incomplete, and where it stops, &coda; starts:
            &coda-long; approaches &octave-app; purely from the user's point of
            view, explaining e.g. <filename>oct</filename>-file construction in
            a tutorial like form.
        </para>
    </abstract>
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