How to bold, italics sentence using fprintf in matlab?

How to bold , italics sentence using fprintf in matlab

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

There is no mechanism for that, just as there is no mechanism for color or underlining or blinking.

fprintf() is for transferring characters, and characters do not have inherent attributes or font properties.

Having said that: some output destinations interpret the characters they receive, and do so in such a way that character or font information can be attached.

See http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2009/05/25/colorizing-text-output/ and http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24093

Also, http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/07/09/printing-hyperlinks-to-the-command-window/

The above are for output to the command window. If you happen to be outputting to a terminal emulator (e.g., if you are running matlab -nodesktop) then you may be able to take advantage of the ANSI sequences for text attributes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#graphics

[Walter Roberson]

See also https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24093-cprintf-display-formatted-colored-text-in-the-command-window

Answer 2

[Ryan Friedman]

You can print bold only (not italics) using fprinf as shown below.

fprintf('Hello <strong> bold </strong> world.\n')

>> Hello bold world.

[Adoniram]

Thanks!

[Lam Nguyen Van]

fprintf(' <strong> Hello world.</strong> \n')

  Hello world. 

[Alec Jacobson]

whoa! Where is this documented?

[Nicholas Fugal]

Any why does it work on the command line but not a UI figure??

[Walter Roberson]

@Nicholas Fugal

When you use uifigure() you can use uihtml() https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uihtml.html

However, for "traditional figures", only uicontrol style 'radio' and 'push' and 'dropbox' and 'listbox', and uitable supported HTML -- in particular not uicontrol style 'edit' or uicontrol 'text'

[Aldo Mote Vigueras]

It worked very well. Thanks

[Steven]

Works nicely in the MATLAB console window (R2023b)

Unfortunatly when using publish() to create a pdf or html document the same example apears as 'Hello <strong> bold </strong> world.' in the document.

[Victoria Serrano]

I'm having the same issue when using publish() to create the PDF. Has anyone found the solution?