Add spellchecker scripts for Octave and run spellcheck of documentation interpreter/doccheck: New directory for spelling/grammar scripts. interpreter/doccheck/README: Instructions for using scripts. interpreter/doccheck/spellcheck: Script to spellcheck a Texinfo file. interpreter/doccheck/aspell.conf: GNU Aspell configuration file for Octave documentation. interpreter/doccheck/aspell-octave.en.pws: Private Aspell dictionary. interpreter/doccheck/add_to_aspell_dict: Script to add new Octave-specific words to private Aspell dictionary. interpreter/octave.texi: New @nospell macro which forces Aspell to ignore the word marked by the macro. interpreter/mk_doc_cache.m: Skip new @nospell macro when building doc_cache.

Octave works best with gnuplot 4.2, which is available from
http://www.gnuplot.info.

Octave now sends data over the same pipe that is used to send commands
to gnuplot.  While this avoids the problem of cluttering /tmp with
data files, it is no longer possible to use the mouse to zoom in on
plots.  This is a limitation of gnuplot, which is unable to zoom when
the data it plots is not stored in a file.  Some work has been done to
fix this problem in newer versions of gnuplot (> 4.2.2).  See for
example, this thread

  http://www.nabble.com/zooming-of-inline-data-tf4357017.html#a12416496

on the gnuplot development list.


John W. Eaton
jwe@octave.org

Last updated: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:28:39 EDT