Word Matlab Notebook and figures...

Have a script generating several figures -- may be 10 or more eventually.

Need to use these in a Word document for distribution so thought the notebook thingie would be pretty simple--just execute the script and voila! the figures should show up (or so I thought, anyways).

Instead the script runs, I see the figures flash by, but all that's left in the document is the last one; none of the rest are to be found anywhere.

Is this expected; if not how to cure the symptom in R2012b or if is a limitation, is there some other quick 'n dirty way to accomplish the job?

Answer 1

[Bruno Pop-Stefanov]

I tried on my end and it looks like you can only show one figure per cell. Instead of defining 1 cell containing all of your code, define multiple cells: one cell per figure.

This doesn't work:

    [for i=1:5
  figure(i)
  plot(rand(10))
  title(['Figure ' num2str(i)])
  pause(1)
    end]

(only figure 5 is displayed)

All five figures pop up, but only the last one remains open and is displayed in the MATLAB Notebook.

But this could be a workaround:

    [figure(1)
    plot(rand(10))
    title('Figure 1')]

(figure 1 is displayed)

    [figure(2)
    plot(rand(10))
    title('Figure 2')]

(figure 2 is displayed)

...and so on.

You could also take a look at the publish function, which lets you create HTML, PDF, XML, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and LaTeX documents from MATLAB code:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/publishing-matlab-code.html

In my opinion, this is more practical than using a MATLAB Notebook.

[dpb]

Yeah, probably so but that also seems to take more work on the coding side than what was hoping for.

Thanks for confirming behavior...

I just reverted to writing the text in a Word document and inserting the figures manually with a link to the files so that they do get updated if make a change in the generating code. That'll have to do for now, but thanks -- went ahead and accepted as you did answer the actual question that the notebook doesn't behave as I'd've liked it to in this instance of expanding the output cell automagically.