How to set default font size in Matlab-published HTML?

I'm using the publish command to produce HTML reports, and I'd like to change the default font size used by publish.m. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

[Sai Sri Pathuri]

When the HTML document is created with the PUBLISH function; it uses the 'mxdom2simplehtml.xsl' stylesheet.

You can modify the contents of the stylesheet and accordingly use it to generate HTML documents of your specification.

1) At the MATLAB command prompt, type:

fullfile(matlabroot,'\toolbox\matlab\codetools\private\') 

2) Navigate to this folder and open up the XSL stylesheet named: mxdom2simplehtml.xsl

3) Now, search the document (using Ctrl+F) for the words " pre, code ". You will come to a location where the file reads:

pre, code { font-size:12px; }  

Here, you can modify the font size of HTML report.

4) Save the changed file as 'mxdom2simplehtml2.xsl' in a location outside the matlabroot folder so that you do not overwrite the existing stylesheet.

For example, at a location like "C:\Users\username\Desktop\xslFiles".

5) Now, whenever you would like to use this size setting, you can use the following command in MATLAB:

publish('MATLABfile.m', 'stylesheet', 'C:\Users\username\Desktop\xslFiles\mxdom2simplehtml2.xsl')  

This will make sure that the PUBLISH function uses this setting for the width while generating the HTML document.

Answer 2

[Tor Wager]

Fabulous! Thank you.

This worked great for me, with a couple of minor modifications:

To load the file:

cd(fullfile(matlabroot,'toolbox', 'matlab', 'codetools', 'private'))
edit mxdom2simplehtml.xsl

This line changes the default body-text font size (to 12px from 10px):

html body { height:100%; margin:0px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000; line-height:140%; background:#fff none; overflow-y:scroll; }

Saved this and used it in the option set:

mxdom2simplehtml_CANlab.xsl

p = struct('useNewFigure', false, 'maxHeight', 800, 'maxWidth', 800, ...
    'format', 'html', 'outputDir', pubdir, ...
    'showCode', true, 'stylesheet', which('mxdom2simplehtml_CANlab.xsl'));
 
publish(pubfilename, p)

Thanks again!