publishLaTeX

by Tim C. Lueth, SG-Lib Toolbox: SolidGeometry 5.6 - Auxiliary function
Introduced first in SolidGeometry 2.1.1, Creation date: 2015-03-13, Last change: 2025-09-14

displays on screen a LaTeX formula

Description

This is an auxiliary function useful if the publish mode of Matlab is used. In this case it is possible to insert formulas in the documentation. Most probably MathWorks will integrate this feature soon by a more convenient principle.

Example Illustration

missing image of publishLaTeX (str)

Syntax

publishLaTeX(str)

Input Parameter

str: String that contains the formula

Examples


publishLaTeX ('$\displaystyle A_{i, j, k}^{-n+2} $')
publishLaTeX('$\displaystyle\frac{\alpha}{\pi}X$');
publishLaTeX('$\displaystyle\frac{\alpha}{\pi}X_{12345t}$');



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Algorithm (Workflow)

This function, publishLaTeX, is designed to display a LaTeX formula on the screen using MATLAB's figure window. It is particularly useful when using MATLAB's publish mode to include formulas in documentation.

Input Parameters

Algorithm Steps

  1. The function begins by closing all existing figure windows with close all;.
  2. A new figure window is created and stored in variable a. The axes are turned off, and the hold state is set to on.
  3. The menu bar and toolbar of the figure window are removed using set (gcf,'MenuBar','none'); and set (gcf,'ToolBar','none');.
  4. Font size fs is set to 16, and a height factor h is set to 2.
  5. The size of the figure window is defined with xsize=500; and ysize=60;. The ysize is adjusted by multiplying h with fs.
  6. The position and size of the figure window are set using set (gcf,'Position',[680 558 xsize ysize]);.
  7. A text object is created at position (0, 0.5-(1/h)/2) with the LaTeX string str using text function. The text is interpreted as LaTeX and displayed with the specified font size fs.

This function is a simple utility to render LaTeX formulas in a MATLAB figure window, providing a visual representation of mathematical expressions.

Algorithm explaination created using ChatGPT on 2025-08-18 23:27. (Please note: No guarantee for the correctness of this explanation)

Last html export of this page out of FM database by TL: 2025-09-21