Printing a formatted table

Allows to display and print simple text tables in MatLab. Plain and LaTeX format supported.

Description

This class allows to display and print a table with arbitrary number of columns.

The first row can be distinguished from others by a HasHeader flag and the column separator string can be customized.

Basic automatic conversion allows to pass common, easily string-representable data types, and optionally sprintf-compatible format strings or callbacks can be passed for either all entries or entry-specific.

Optionally a caption can be added to the PrintTable upon construction, directly taking sprintf-like arguments.

Allows to save the table in the formats 'txt' (plain text), 'tex' (LaTeX tabular) and 'pdf' (Basically using pdflatex on 'tex' output).

The table can easily be transposed.

In difference to the submission #33717 I make use of classes and have more possibilities regarding output and appearance.

Now a basic automatic $Math$-Environment detection for LaTeX is available.

Acknowledgements

Display Formatted Text Table Of Data inspired this file.

This file inspired Antoine Equation: Gui and Find Instance.

• Required Products: MATLAB
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.13 (R2011b)
• Other requirements: pdflatex for PDF export

[Daniel Wirtz]

Hey Arnold,
unfortunately i do not have 2012b yet, so i haven't tested it with that version.
However, i figured that the critical point in formatting is the tab character equivalent in whitespaces, this setting somehow seems to be different amongst platforms/matlab versions.
I've submitted an updated version with improved autodetection of that constant.
see if this solves your issue, and if not, could you send me a private message with the generated output and commands you used?
thanks!

[arnold]

I must be doing something wrong, the text output I see in the command window is not formatted at all?! Neither 'tex' or 'txt' seems to work.
Updated to 2012b, maybe that has something to do with it?

[David Hagan]

 

[Daniel Wirtz]

Dear Colin,
i've just submitted an updated version with PDF support. Thank you for this suggestion!
Regarding the capitalization: I'm sticking with (what i think to be) the default Java rules for class member names; properties start with captial letter and functions start with small letters, both written in CamelCase.
As i'm programming this style everywhere i probably won't change it anytime soon, sorry :-)

[Colin]

Fantastic tool, latex output is exactly what I was looking for.

Some (extremely minor) suggestions:
i. found the captilisation of the methods a bit hard to predict. e.g.

- t.print vs. t.Format vs t.addRow

which meant I had to keep referring to the help file to find out if it was t.print or t.Print

ii. command to output table straight to pdf:

e.g. if~exist('./TeX/','dir');mkdir('./TeX/');end
fid = fopen('./TeX/main.tex','w+');

fprintf(fid,'\\documentclass{article}\n\\begin{document}\n');
t.print(fid);
fprintf(fid,'\n\n\\end{document}');
fclose('all');

! pdflatex -output-directory ./TeX/ main.tex
open([pwd '/TeX/main.pdf'])

[Sven]

Very nice tool! Usage is quite easy and the tex output might save me a lot of time. Well done!

[Sven]