diff --git a/doc/macroprocessor/macroprocessor.tex b/doc/macroprocessor/macroprocessor.tex index d77336b63..76c8e978f 100644 --- a/doc/macroprocessor/macroprocessor.tex +++ b/doc/macroprocessor/macroprocessor.tex @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ \title{The Dynare Macro-processor} \author{Sébastien Villemot} \institute{CEPREMAP} -\date{June 29, 2010} +\date{June 20, 2011} \AtBeginSection[] { @@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ \end{frame} \begin{frame} - \frametitle{Old Dynare design} + \frametitle{Older design of Dynare (version 3)} \includegraphics[width=0.95\linewidth]{old-design.pdf} \end{frame} \begin{frame} - \frametitle{New Dynare design} + \frametitle{Current design of Dynare (version 4)} \includegraphics[width=0.95\linewidth]{new-design.pdf} \end{frame} @@ -554,19 +554,19 @@ rhos = [ 0.8, 0.9, 1]; \end{itemize} \end{frame} -\section{Conclusion} +% \begin{frame}[fragile=singleslide] +% \frametitle{Possible future developments} +% \begin{itemize} +% \item Find a nicer syntax for indexed sums/products +% \item Implement other control structures: \texttt{elsif}, \texttt{switch/case}, \texttt{while/until} loops +% \item Implement macro-functions (or templates), with a syntax like: +% \small +% \verb+@#define QUADRATIC_COST(x, x_ss, phi) = phi/2*(x/x_ss-1)^2+ +% \normalsize +% \end{itemize} +% \end{frame} -\begin{frame}[fragile=singleslide] - \frametitle{Possible future developments} - \begin{itemize} - \item Find a nicer syntax for indexed sums/products - \item Implement other control structures: \texttt{elsif}, \texttt{switch/case}, \texttt{while/until} loops - \item Implement macro-functions (or templates), with a syntax like: - \small - \verb+@#define QUADRATIC_COST(x, x_ss, phi) = phi/2*(x/x_ss-1)^2+ - \normalsize - \end{itemize} -\end{frame} +\section{Dynare for Octave} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Dynare for Octave (1/2)} @@ -583,8 +583,8 @@ rhos = [ 0.8, 0.9, 1]; \item Inconvenients: \begin{itemize} \item slower than MATLAB - \item less user friendly (however note that there is a graphical user - interface to Octave called ``qtoctave'') + \item less user friendly (however note that there is a graphical fronted + called ``qtoctave'' that can be installed on top of Octave) \end{itemize} \end{itemize} \end{frame} @@ -594,12 +594,7 @@ rhos = [ 0.8, 0.9, 1]; \begin{itemize} \item Since version 4.0, Dynare works on top of Octave \item This makes Dynare 100\% free software - \item All features of Dynare work with Octave, except: - \begin{itemize} - \item loading of Excel files for estimation - \item diffuse Kalman filter (used in models with unit roots) - \item some graphics automatically generated look bad, it may be necessary to recreate them manually - \end{itemize} + \item Almost all features of Dynare work with Octave (very few exceptions) \item For more information: \\ \url{http://www.dynare.org/DynareWiki/DynareOctave} \end{itemize}