--- a/scripts/sparse/sprandsym.m	Thu Apr 05 17:30:31 2007 +0000
+++ b/scripts/sparse/sprandsym.m	Thu Apr 05 17:59:47 2007 +0000
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     n1 = m1 + rem (n, 2);
     mn1 = m1*n1;
     k1 = round (d*mn1);
-    idx1 = unique (fix(rand(min(k1*1.01,k1+10),1)*mn1))+1; 
+    idx1 = unique (fix (rand (min (k1*1.01, k1+10), 1) * mn1)) + 1; 
     ## idx contains random numbers in [1,mn] generate 1% or 10 more
     ## random values than necessary in order to reduce the probability
     ## that there are less than k distinct values; maybe a better
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     n2 = ceil (n/2);
     nn2 = n2*n2;
     k2 = round (d*nn2);
-    idx2 = unique (fix (rand (min (k2*1.01, k1+10), 1)*nn2)) + 1; 
+    idx2 = unique (fix (rand (min (k2*1.01, k1+10), 1) * nn2)) + 1; 
     k2 = min (length (idx2), k2);
     j2 = floor ((idx2(1:k2)-1)/n2);
     i2 = idx2(1:k2) - j2*n2;
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
       S = sparse (n, n);
     else
       S1 = sparse (i1, j1+1, randn (k1, 1), m1, n1);
-      S = [tril(S1), sparse(m1,m1); ...
+      S = [tril(S1), sparse (m1, m1); ...
 	   sparse(i2,j2+1,randn(k2,1),n2,n2), triu(S1,1)'];
       S = S + tril (S, -1)';
     endif