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bug #50203: doc: operator overloading Table 34.1 formatting errors

Submitted by:  Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>
Submitted on:  Wed 01 Feb 2017 12:26:05 PM UTC  
 
Category: DocumentationSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: None
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Open/Closed: Closed
Release: 4.2.0Operating System: Any

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Thu 02 Feb 2017 04:44:04 AM UTC, comment #6:

Since this was just a documentation change, I backported it to the 4.2 stable branch. I also fixed two other issues in the table (missing space, incorrect variable name) in this cset http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/0f2582425a9e.

Closing report.

Rik <rik5>
Project Administrator
Thu 02 Feb 2017 03:27:58 AM UTC, comment #5:

yes, you are right, that is the main objective...
but a complete list of operation symbols is also valuable.
Also the hint which ones are conform with matlab.

Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>
Wed 01 Feb 2017 10:07:11 PM UTC, comment #4:

I checked in this change:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/3ade23e8fdc7

It looks better to me without the special TeX formatting, plus having both means extra maintenance.

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Project Administrator
Wed 01 Feb 2017 08:17:33 PM UTC, comment #3:

Keep in mind that the purpose of this table is to show what methods are used to overload specific operator semantics, not to be an exhaustive list of all operators and their aliases.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Wed 01 Feb 2017 08:15:31 PM UTC, comment #2:

Confirmed that the formatting of the table in the dvi/pdf/ps outputs is incorrect. The binary operators a.^b and a^b show up as a circumflex on top of the b character (a.̂b and âb). The binary operator a!=b is displayed as "a! = b".

Adding aliases for the operators ! and != might be nice if it's possible without messing up the table formatting.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Wed 01 Feb 2017 06:18:46 PM UTC, comment #1:

What is also missing are the alternatives:

    • in place of ^,

! in place of ~
!= in place of ~=

I feel, the expressions compatible with matlab
should come first, they are mandatory,
the others are optional.

Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>
Wed 01 Feb 2017 12:26:05 PM UTC, original submission:

meant is a^b but what occurs is $a\hat b$ (twice).
In addition to !a we have ~a.
Spacing of a!=b is bad. operator must be defined in tex.

Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>

 

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