How to bold, italics sentence using fprintf in matlab?

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How to bold , italics sentence using fprintf in matlab

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 1 Dec 2011
There is no mechanism for that, just as there is no mechanism for color or underlining or blinking.
fprintf() is for transferring characters, and characters do not have inherent attributes or font properties.
Having said that: some output destinations interpret the characters they receive, and do so in such a way that character or font information can be attached.
The above are for output to the command window. If you happen to be outputting to a terminal emulator (e.g., if you are running matlab -nodesktop) then you may be able to take advantage of the ANSI sequences for text attributes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#graphics

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Ryan Friedman
Ryan Friedman on 1 May 2019
You can print bold only (not italics) using fprinf as shown below.
fprintf('Hello <strong> bold </strong> world.\n')
>> Hello bold world.
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Steven
Steven on 24 Nov 2023
Works nicely in the MATLAB console window (R2023b)
Unfortunatly when using publish() to create a pdf or html document the same example apears as 'Hello <strong> bold </strong> world.' in the document.
Victoria Serrano
Victoria Serrano on 30 Jan 2024
I'm having the same issue when using publish() to create the PDF. Has anyone found the solution?

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