dispx: Display styled string in xterm

Display string with underlined, bold or colored characters in an xterm.

Description

This function allows you to display strings in an xterm with bold, underline, blink and/or color attributes. The format is controlled by embedding commands in the string, similar to LaTeX (though with far less functionality). For example,

dispx('The word \fg{r}{red} will be red.')

This capability will not work with the Desktop user interface, only in an xterm. That is the interface you get on Linux and Mac OS X when you start MATLAB with

matlab -nodesktop

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a)
• Other requirements: Mac OS X or Linux, xterm

[Frederic Moisy]

Nice! Is it technically possible to extend this feature for the Desktop command window?

[Douglas Schwarz]

Frederic, I suppose it would be possible, but it would have to be done in a completely different way. I assume changes to the Desktop interface itself would have to be made. My program uses ANSI escape sequences which certainly do not work in the Desktop.