pretty_publish

Author: Julien Cretel ([email protected])

Improves LaTeX output of MATLAB's publish function by performing syntax-highlighting of m-code. The -toc file also enables multi-level headers and a table of contents at the beginning.

Dependencies (compared to vanilla "publish")

• matlab-prettifier LaTeX package (http://www.ctan.org/pkg/matlab-prettifier)

Installation

1. Install dependencies.

2. Add the file matlab2latex_pretty.xsl to your search MATLAB path.

3. Test that everything works well by running the following toy example

   publish('peaks',...
       struct('format','latex','stylesheet','matlab2latex_pretty.xsl'))
   

at the MATLAB command line.

User guide

Without header numbering and TOC

Specify matlab2latex-pretty.xsl as the stylesheet that publish should use:

publish('<path-to-m-file>',...
    struct('format','latex','stylesheet','matlab2latex_pretty.xsl'))

With header numbering and TOC

If you want multi-level numbered headers, edit your MATLAB section headers such that they start with underscores _, depending on the desired level.

For a top level section use:

%% This is a top level section
% With a short description

For a subsection use:

%% _This will be a subsection
% With a short description

For a subsubsection use:

%% __This will be a subsubsection
% With a short description

Specify matlab2latex-pretty-toc.xsl as the stylesheet that publish should use:

publish('<path-to-m-file>',...
        struct('format','latex','stylesheet','matlab2latex_pretty.xsl'))