User talk:Npettiaux

Hello Npettiaux, welcome to wikibooks!

I got your message about the matlab book, and to be honest, I am completely unconvinced that the name should be changed. Expense is hardly justification against the use of matlab, and the fact that octave is free does not necessarily make it a better value. The two programs, while they share the same core language, are very different, and matlab has a large number of features, plug-ins, addons, and toolboxes that octave simply can't match. A book dedicated to "Matlab and Octave", would likely contain a small shared section about the language itself, and very large sections about the other features of matlab that don't pertain to octave.

I would far prefer the creation of a separate "Octave Programming" book to a renaming of the matlab book to "Matlab and Octave Programming". If you would like to create such a new book, I would certainly like to help. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 14:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Programming/LearnByExample
Please see Votes_for_deletion for some ideas about how the book might be improved. Basically they seem to want more 'commentary' or that good parts of the book are copied to other more suitable books that already exist. As the decision by the community was 'delete' any changes would need to be made soon otherwise an Administrator may decide to delete the book as per the discussion. Xania talk 14:29, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The above book will be deleted in the next few days unless something is done to improve it. Xania [[Image:Flag_of_Poland_2.svg|15px]]talk 11:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Octave Template
I'm going to throw together a quick template for use with octave differences. I'll create the template here: Template:MATLAB/Octave. you can insert this template into the book by typing:

Where " " will be an optional explanation that you can add for clarity. Give me about 5 minutes to put it together, and check it out. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 15:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)