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doc: Update docstrings to have one sentence summary as first line. Update scripts in audio, elfun, general, geometry, and image directories. * scripts/audio/@audioplayer/__get_properties__.m, scripts/audio/@audioplayer/audioplayer.m, scripts/audio/@audioplayer/get.m, scripts/audio/@audioplayer/isplaying.m, scripts/audio/@audioplayer/play.m, scripts/audio/@audioplayer/playblocking.m, scripts/audio/@audioplayer/set.m, scripts/audio/@audioplayer/subsasgn.m, scripts/audio/@audioplayer/subsref.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/audiorecorder.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/get.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/getaudiodata.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/getplayer.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/isrecording.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/play.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/record.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/recordblocking.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/set.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/stop.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/subsasgn.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/subsref.m, scripts/audio/lin2mu.m, scripts/audio/mu2lin.m, scripts/audio/record.m, scripts/audio/sound.m, scripts/audio/soundsc.m, scripts/audio/wavread.m, scripts/audio/wavwrite.m, scripts/elfun/cosd.m, scripts/elfun/sind.m, scripts/elfun/tand.m, scripts/general/accumarray.m, scripts/general/accumdim.m, scripts/general/bitcmp.m, scripts/general/bitget.m, scripts/general/bitset.m, scripts/general/blkdiag.m, scripts/general/cart2pol.m, scripts/general/cart2sph.m, scripts/general/cell2mat.m, scripts/general/celldisp.m, scripts/general/chop.m, scripts/general/circshift.m, scripts/general/common_size.m, scripts/general/cplxpair.m, scripts/general/cumtrapz.m, scripts/general/dblquad.m, scripts/general/deal.m, scripts/general/del2.m, scripts/general/display.m, scripts/general/divergence.m, scripts/general/fieldnames.m, scripts/general/flip.m, scripts/general/flipdim.m, scripts/general/fliplr.m, scripts/general/flipud.m, scripts/general/gradient.m, scripts/general/interp3.m, scripts/general/interpft.m, scripts/general/interpn.m, scripts/general/loadobj.m, scripts/general/logspace.m, scripts/general/methods.m, scripts/general/nargchk.m, scripts/general/narginchk.m, scripts/general/nargoutchk.m, scripts/general/nextpow2.m, scripts/general/nthargout.m, scripts/general/num2str.m, scripts/general/pol2cart.m, scripts/general/polyarea.m, scripts/general/postpad.m, scripts/general/prepad.m, scripts/general/profile.m, scripts/general/quadgk.m, scripts/general/quadl.m, scripts/general/quadv.m, scripts/general/randi.m, scripts/general/rat.m, scripts/general/repmat.m, scripts/general/rot90.m, scripts/general/rotdim.m, scripts/general/saveobj.m, scripts/general/shift.m, scripts/general/shiftdim.m, scripts/general/sortrows.m, scripts/general/sph2cart.m, scripts/general/structfun.m, scripts/general/subsindex.m, scripts/general/trapz.m, scripts/general/triplequad.m, scripts/geometry/delaunayn.m, scripts/geometry/dsearch.m, scripts/geometry/dsearchn.m, scripts/geometry/griddata.m, scripts/geometry/griddata3.m, scripts/geometry/griddatan.m, scripts/geometry/inpolygon.m, scripts/geometry/rectint.m, scripts/geometry/tsearchn.m, scripts/geometry/voronoi.m, scripts/geometry/voronoin.m, scripts/help/__unimplemented__.m, scripts/help/doc.m, scripts/help/doc_cache_create.m, scripts/help/get_first_help_sentence.m, scripts/help/help.m, scripts/help/lookfor.m, scripts/help/print_usage.m, scripts/help/type.m, scripts/help/which.m, scripts/image/autumn.m, scripts/image/bone.m, scripts/image/brighten.m, scripts/image/cmpermute.m, scripts/image/colorcube.m, scripts/image/contrast.m, scripts/image/cool.m, scripts/image/copper.m, scripts/image/cubehelix.m, scripts/image/flag.m, scripts/image/gmap40.m, scripts/image/gray.m, scripts/image/gray2ind.m, scripts/image/hot.m, scripts/image/hsv.m, scripts/image/image.m, scripts/image/imagesc.m, scripts/image/imfinfo.m, scripts/image/imformats.m, scripts/image/imread.m, scripts/image/imshow.m, scripts/image/imwrite.m, scripts/image/iscolormap.m, scripts/image/jet.m, scripts/image/lines.m, scripts/image/ntsc2rgb.m, scripts/image/ocean.m, scripts/image/pink.m, scripts/image/prism.m, scripts/image/rainbow.m, scripts/image/rgb2ntsc.m, scripts/image/spinmap.m, scripts/image/spring.m, scripts/image/summer.m, scripts/image/white.m, scripts/image/winter.m: Update docstrings to have one sentence summary as first line. Re-structure to have line lengths <= 80 chars.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Sun, 03 May 2015 09:36:20 -0700
parents 9fc020886ae9
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## Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Søren Hauberg
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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##
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## General Public License for more details.
##
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## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{text} =} get_first_help_sentence (@var{name})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{text} =} get_first_help_sentence (@var{name}, @var{max_len})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{text}, @var{status}] =} get_first_help_sentence (@dots{})
## Return the first sentence of a function's help text.
##
## The first sentence is defined as the text after the function declaration
## until either the first period (".") or the first appearance of two
## consecutive newlines ("\n\n").  The text is truncated to a maximum length of 
## @var{max_len}, which defaults to 80.
##
## The optional output argument @var{status} returns the status reported by
## @code{makeinfo}.  If only one output argument is requested, and @var{status}
## is nonzero, a warning is displayed.
##
## As an example, the first sentence of this help text is
##
## @example
## @group
## get_first_help_sentence ("get_first_help_sentence")
## @print{} ans = Return the first sentence of a function's help text.
## @end group
## @end example
## @end deftypefn

function [text, status] = get_first_help_sentence (name, max_len = 80)
  ## Check input
  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (! ischar (name))
    error ("get_first_help_sentence: NAME must be a string");
  endif

  if (! isnumeric (max_len) || max_len <= 0 || max_len != fix (max_len))
    error ("get_first_help_sentence: MAX_LEN must be positive integer");
  endif

  ## First, we get the raw help text
  [help_text, format] = get_help_text (name);

  ## Then, we take action depending on the format
  switch (lower (format))
    case "plain text"
      [text, status] = first_sentence_plain_text (help_text, max_len);
    case "texinfo"
      [text, status] = first_sentence_texinfo (help_text, max_len);
    case "html"
      [text, status] = first_sentence_html (help_text, max_len);
    case "not documented"
      error ("get_first_help_sentence: '%s' is not documented\n", name);
    case "not found"
      error ("get_first_help_sentence: '%s' not found\n", name);
    otherwise
      error ("get_first_help_sentence: internal error: unsupported help text format: '%s'\n", format);
  endswitch

  if (nargout <= 1 && status != 0)
    warning ("get_first_help_sentence: couldn't run makeinfo on '%s'", name);
  endif
endfunction

## This function extracts the first sentence from a plain text help text
function [text, status] = first_sentence_plain_text (help_text, max_len)
  ## Extract first line by searching for a period followed by a space class
  ## character (to support periods in numbers or words) ...
  period_idx = regexp (help_text, '\.\s', "once");
  ## ... or a double end-of-line (we subtract 1 because we are not interested
  ## in capturing the first newline).
  line_end_idx = regexp (help_text, "\n\n", "once") - 1;
  text = help_text (1:min ([period_idx; line_end_idx; max_len; length(help_text)]));
  status = 0;
endfunction

## This function extracts the first sentence from a Texinfo help text.
## The function works by removing @def* from the texinfo text. After this, we
## render the text to plain text using makeinfo, and then extract the first
## line.
function [text, status] = first_sentence_texinfo (help_text, max_len)
  ## Lines ending with "@\n" are continuation lines, so they should be
  ## concatenated with the following line.
  help_text = strrep (help_text, "@\n", " ");

  ## Find, and remove, lines that start with @def. This should remove things
  ## such as @deftypefn, @deftypefnx, @defvar, etc.
  keep = true (size (help_text));
  def_idx = strfind (help_text, "@def");
  if (! isempty (def_idx))
    endl_idx = find (help_text == "\n");
    for k = 1:length (def_idx)
      endl = endl_idx(find (endl_idx > def_idx(k), 1));
      if (isempty (endl))
        endl = numel (keep);
      endif
      keep(def_idx(k):endl) = false;
    endfor

    ## Remove the @end ... that corresponds to the @def we removed above
    def1 = def_idx(1);
    space_idx = find (help_text == " ");
    space_idx = space_idx (find (space_idx > def1, 1));
    bracket_idx = find (help_text == "{" | help_text == "}");
    bracket_idx = bracket_idx (find (bracket_idx > def1, 1));
    if (isempty (space_idx) && isempty (bracket_idx))
      error ("get_first_help_sentence: couldn't parse texinfo");
    endif
    sep_idx = min (space_idx, bracket_idx);
    def_type = help_text(def1+1:sep_idx-1);

    end_idx = strfind (help_text, sprintf ("@end %s", def_type));
    if (isempty (end_idx))
      error ("get_first_help_sentence: couldn't parse texinfo");
    endif
    keep(end_idx(1):end) = false;

    help_text = help_text(keep);
  endif

  ## Run makeinfo to generate plain text
  [help_text, status] = __makeinfo__ (help_text, "plain text");

  ## Extract first line with plain text method.
  text = first_sentence_plain_text (help_text, max_len);
endfunction

## This function extracts the first sentence from a html help text.
## The function simply removes the tags and treats the text as plain text.
function [text, status] = first_sentence_html (help_text, max_len)
  ## Strip tags
  [help_text, status] = strip_html_tags (help_text);

  ## Extract first line with plain text method.
  text = first_sentence_plain_text (help_text, max_len);
endfunction


%!assert (get_first_help_sentence ('get_first_help_sentence'), ...
%!        "Return the first sentence of a function's help text.")

## Test input validation
%!error get_first_help_sentence ()
%!error get_first_help_sentence (1, 2, 3)
%!error <NAME must be a string> get_first_help_sentence (1)
%!error <MAX_LEN must be positive integer> get_first_help_sentence ("ls", "a")
%!error <MAX_LEN must be positive integer> get_first_help_sentence ("ls", 0)
%!error <MAX_LEN must be positive integer> get_first_help_sentence ("ls", 80.1)