[Gretl-devel] Documentation for the "set" command

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

Hi everyone,

I just committed an update of the documentation for the "set" command, 
which was quite outdated. Unfortunatly, this will require some extra work 
for the translators, because I also changed a few strings in 
lib/src/libset.c.

Moreover:
1) the "force_decpoint" settings seems to be used nowhere. I 
peronally don't remember anything about it. Allin, what do 
you think we should do?

2) the "BFGSmax" function is undocumented in the "genr" command section, 
although it receives fairly extensive treatment in the User's Guide. 
However, documenting "genr" like any other command is maybe a bit 
difficult nowadays. Maybe we should add a chapter in the User's Guide 
documenting all the genr functions in alphabetical order. Note that this 
could be a collaborative effort: the User's guide is in LaTeX, so it's 
easy to edit for everybody, and the full list of genr functions can be 
easily retrieved from the source. Opinions?

3) the options that the "restrict" commands accepts are, surprisingly, not 
listed in commands.xml. This is a harder task than it may seem, since 
internally "restrict" behaves quite differently depending on what 
estimation method was last used, and therefore accepts different options.

IMHO, none of the above items should be considered release blockers, but 
it'd be nice if they could be addressed.


Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti