Text and Plots in Matlab to LaTeX

Question

I like to create a "report generation" script in Matlab.

Suppose we have a Matlab array, data and we want to export the following to a .tex file: "The information in the first element of data is X." This would be followed by a plot of X.

I have already tried help latex in Matlab and aware of the various packages on Matlab file exchange. However I have seen nothing so far that will allow me to export both text and plots in the same Matlab script to a .tex file.

Answer 1

The publish function may work for you.

Create this script, foo.m:

%%
% The information in the first element of data is X.

plot(X)

And publish it to LaTeX:

>> publish foo latex

Answer 2

You might want to take a look at this article published in TUGboat (the official magazine of the TeX Users Group):

http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77seta.pdf

Generating LaTeX documents through Matlab (S. E. Talole and S. B. Phadke)

Good luck!

Answer 3

Are you aware of matlab2tikz? i've used it extensively for my PhD-Thesis, albeit only for exporting single plots. But I guess it should be easily possible to whip something up that combines the power of MATLABs LaTeX export capabilities.