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4.5 Publishing Reports
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4.5 Publishing Reports
You can create a fancy, formatted report in HTML, XML, WIE;X, MS Word, or
MS PowerPoint (MS stuff only on PCs) using MATLAB 's built -in publisher. For a
quick introduction, see Lesson 11 in Chapter 2. Here we discuss, step by step, how
to generate a report using the MATLAB publisher.
1. Create a script file: First, create a script file containing all commands
required to do the computation or produce the desired result. Include comments
where necessary to clarify the commands. Let us take, for example , the
following script file.
% Plot a spiral given by r = e-(theta/10) for theta from 0 to 10*pi
% Create vectors theta and r
theta = linspace (0, 10*pi ,200) ; % 200 points between 0 & lO*pi
r = exp ( - theta/10) ;
% compute r
% plot the spiral using polar plot
polar (theta,r)
2. Format the script as a cell script: A cell4 is basically a set of related
commands that form one unit of computation, or a chunk of descriptive text
that forms a unit. A cell could contain one command, many commands,
or even no commands. The beginning of a cell is marked by the double
percent character (%%). A cell continues until the beginning of another cell is
encountered. The text in the line beginning with the %% character is used as
the section heading by the publisher. All snch headings in a script are used
by the publisher to create a hyperlinked taule of contents in the report. It is
generally a good idea to have an overall title for the report, generated by a
cell containing only the title, no commands, at the top of the script file.
%% Publishing Reports - A Simple Example
%% Description
% Plot a spiral given by r = e-(theta/10) , 0