Comments on: Marking up M with HTML http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/ Ken & Mike work on the MATLAB Desktop team Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:59:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Michael Katz http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-3635 Michael Katz Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:06:46 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-3635 Daniel, Yes it is a limitation in PUBLISH that you can not mix HTML with other types of markup. Hopefully you can use the html-equivalent if you need specific formatting. Can you email me your second example M-file so I can understand the issue better? Daniel,
Yes it is a limitation in PUBLISH that you can not mix HTML with other types of markup. Hopefully you can use the html-equivalent if you need specific formatting. Can you email me your second example M-file so I can understand the issue better?

]]> By: Daniel Armyr http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-3632 Daniel Armyr Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:56:10 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-3632 Oh, bummer. The HTML got lost in the process.. Well, I think my descriptions are clear enough as it is. Oh, bummer. The HTML got lost in the process.. Well, I think my descriptions are clear enough as it is.

]]> By: Daniel Armyr http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-3631 Daniel Armyr Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:55:22 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-3631 Hi. I was very impressed with this possibility when I first read about it, but now that I try to use it for the first time I have noticed two unwanted behaviours that together are so severe as to classify them as bugs from my perspective. 1) It seems not to be possible to mix HTML and non-html within the comments for a single cell. For example: %% Test % % onetwo % % Hello World! 2) If the extra text is placed within the html block, it is formated very differently from the way normal comments are, specifically the line-length is not at all the same. For example: %% Test 1 % It can be argued, though it is not possible to verify % without the original calbox which was not sent back to % without the original calbox which was not sent back to %% Test2 % % onetwo % It can be argued, though it is not possible to verify % without the original calbox which was not sent back to % without the original calbox which was not sent back to % When studying the HTML output from these examples, it seems Mathworks has chosen quite a sloppy approach to the problem, using the extreme forgivingness of most HTML browsers to allow the HTML markup. Unfortunately this leads to HTMl which looks like a rats-nest and whose results are far from predictable. Sincerely Daniel Armyr Hi.
I was very impressed with this possibility when I first read about it, but now that I try to use it for the first time I have noticed two unwanted behaviours that together are so severe as to classify them as bugs from my perspective.

1) It seems not to be possible to mix HTML and non-html within the comments for a single cell. For example:

%% Test
%
% onetwo
%
% Hello World!

2) If the extra text is placed within the html block, it is formated very differently from the way normal comments are, specifically the line-length is not at all the same. For example:

%% Test 1
% It can be argued, though it is not possible to verify
% without the original calbox which was not sent back to
% without the original calbox which was not sent back to
%% Test2
%
% onetwo
% It can be argued, though it is not possible to verify
% without the original calbox which was not sent back to
% without the original calbox which was not sent back to
%

When studying the HTML output from these examples, it seems Mathworks has chosen quite a sloppy approach to the problem, using the extreme forgivingness of most HTML browsers to allow the HTML markup. Unfortunately this leads to HTMl which looks like a rats-nest and whose results are far from predictable.

Sincerely
Daniel Armyr

]]> By: Michael Katz http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-2876 Michael Katz Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:37:59 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-2876 Thanks for the encouragement. Thanks for the encouragement.

]]> By: Kwadwo Dompreh http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-2875 Kwadwo Dompreh Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:53:53 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/01/21/marking-up-m-with-html/#comment-2875 Awesome, wonderful and smart start keep it up Mich. I am so impressed with your Blog and wish you will continue with the good work. Awesome, wonderful and smart start keep it up Mich. I am so impressed with your Blog and wish you will continue with the good work.

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