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Possible tutorial on Octave Symbolic

Open jonbcooper opened this issue 2 months ago • 10 comments

I saw a comment asking if someone could start a tutorial so, as I have just started learning a bit of Octave, I have put together a quick tutorial: here. Feel free to use that, if it is of any interest.

jonbcooper avatar Oct 02 '25 22:10 jonbcooper

Very cool! Too bad about the square root rendering in one of the last examples :( Font trouble? It looks good on my computer.

Any idea where we should link this? Maybe from the wiki somewhere? Either the wiki.octave.org or the local one on this site...

cbm755 avatar Oct 02 '25 22:10 cbm755

Ugh, its like that out of the box: top if the UI on Octave 11 on Fedora 42:

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In black on the bottom is my terminal.

cbm755 avatar Oct 02 '25 22:10 cbm755

Looks fine when I paste that char in manually:

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cbm755 avatar Oct 02 '25 22:10 cbm755

It is somehow related to the vertical bars at the ends, when those are present, it damages the horizontal piece:

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cbm755 avatar Oct 02 '25 22:10 cbm755

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/da968d1e-5ffc-47fe-a1c6-16426dc325ce

cbm755 avatar Oct 02 '25 22:10 cbm755

It works fine with many of the other fonts. I can make a better picture, or add a warning in the text to change font if something looks odd.

jonbcooper avatar Oct 02 '25 23:10 jonbcooper

It varies with the font size too. If you lower it, the horizontal bars can suddenly appear. Hack or dejavu sans mono seem the most reliable.

The bottom corners of the array brackets display correctly, too.

jonbcooper avatar Oct 02 '25 23:10 jonbcooper

I didn't find an upstream bug report. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave

You could file one? If you do link it here. Otherwise, I will try to... eventually!

cbm755 avatar Oct 02 '25 23:10 cbm755

I added a couple of better figures along with one or two new things and the bug has been reported.

jonbcooper avatar Oct 06 '25 22:10 jonbcooper

I am not sure what would be the octave bug? That it uses a really bad default font for gui?

dasergatskov avatar Oct 06 '25 23:10 dasergatskov