teximage.m

Displays a LaTeX string as an image.

Description

If you have LaTeX already installed, this function will convert LaTeX strings into images and display them in figures.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 5.3 (R11)
• Other requirements: either MiKTeX on PCs or Web2C7.2 or later on Unix.

[Ben]

Very nice function!

[John de Leon]

Hi Ben, does this also work with the latest releases of MATLAB?

[Pawel]

Does not work under Ubuntu 10.04 with XeLaTex. Requires corrections in the code.

[Mohammed]

so good !

[Luis Rozas]

 

[Clark W]

Can we reduce the size of the exported result when using
print -deps ...

[jack nice]

Can we add the package \usepackage[latin5]{inputenc}

[Eddie Fiorelli]

Yup, I had to make the same change on line 340.

[Martin Mooslechner]

In addition to the 'tex' -> 'latex' change I also had to change the format of the fullfile-String. it contained '\', latex thought of it as an escape character...

I added:
add to line 640: cmd=regexprep(cmd, '\', '/');

to change all the '\' to '/'.
works fine after that...

Martin

[Joaquin Orias]

 

[Jurgen Theiss]

This is exactly what I was looking for. It works beautifully. However, I also had to make the change from 'tex' to 'latex' on line 340 as pointed out by Peter Lawrence below.

[Jeramy Ashlock]

I made the change to line 340 (tex->latex) butI get the message

Error running Ghostscript: /bin/bash: /usr/local/matlab/sys/ghostscript/bin/glnx86/gs: /lib/ld-linux.so.1: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

I make symlinks to the newer libraries, e.g.
ln -s /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.1, etc... but this doesn't work. I aso tried to symlink the 'gs' binary in the matlab directory to /usr/bin/gs, with more error messages.

I'm using R12 on fedora core 2.

[Theodore Sande]

Just what I require !

[Peter Lawrence]

Very pleased, makes matlab plots look very professional.
As with Jøger's point, texpoint did not work for me in my newly installed WinXP+MiKTeX until I changed the string 'tex' to 'latex' in line 340.

[Jøger Hansegård]

Nice! For Windows+Miktex, change 'tex' to 'latex' in line 340: fullfile(texbin,['tex' exe_ext]).
At least, this works for me.

[ZL Guo]

excellent!!!

[Federico Forte]

Great, great, great!!!

[John Long]

I have MikTeX installed, but the m-file doesn't work. What executable should I define in the setup?

[Wang Gang]

Very good!
Maybe you can add the following codes to enable AMSMATH package. A shortcoming is that the saved .fig file has a too big size.

\\documentclass{minimal}\\pagestyle{empty}\\usepackage{color,amsmath}\n

[Stefan Schlamp]

There is a problem with the resizing function if the figure also contains a legend. You want to change the function "figuremoved" in the file to include the line

legend('ResizeLegend');

The whole function would then read:
function figuremoved(fig);
fpos = convertUnits(get(fig,'units'),get(fig,'position'),'inches');
H = findall(fig,'type','image','tag','teximage');
H=H(:)';
for h=H
ax = get(h,'parent');
hunits = getappdata(h,'units');
if hunits(1) == 'n'
apos = get(ax,'pos');
pos = getappdata(h,'position');
center = convertUnits(hunits,[pos 10 10],'inches',fpos,'inches');
apos(1:2) = center(1:2) - .5*apos(3:4);
set(ax,'pos',apos);
end
legend('ResizeLegend');
end

In my case, this did not cause problems when no legend was present.

[Madhusudhan Chellappa]

Very usefull. And very easy to use.
Thanks Ben

[roby Zopope]

It's great

[Steeve Ambroise]

 

[Steeve Ambroise]

 

[Daniel Zajfman]

This is very good!

[Praveen Malhotra]

This is great! I was looking for this for a long time.

[Byunghun Kim]

Very good!

[Yordan Kyosev]

Thanks !

[Rahul Shah]

Great and nifty utility... I will now be using this regularly to plot figures and include Latex equations. Very easy to use. Absolutely recommended for Matlab/Latex users. Thanks, Ben!

[Philipp Baecker]

Nice!

[Dingyu Xue]

Perfectly done work. It is recommended that all the MATLAB/LaTeX users install this work to make their work graphics easier and beautiful.

It is suggested that one can interactively moves the image in the axis with a mouse.

[Sebastien PARIS]

A Must Have !!!!. Works great !!!.

A Wish ?. Yes could matlab ha a better Latex support ?
because teximage is very usefull but size files increase
too much (due to the bitmap convertion of the Latex string)