uitable with latex or greek letters

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I am working in App Designer,
i want to create a table with 2 collumns where first collumn is a parameter name, something like "$\gamma^a_b$"
and second collumn would be numeric and editable.
It seems like neither UITable or UIStyle have latex interpreter,
i have seen answers from 2016 with unicode characters and html tags, but either i'm doing something wrong or they do not work anymore.
app.AllParamTable = uitable(app.AllParamPanel);
app.AllParamTable.ColumnName = {'Parameter'; 'Value'};
app.AllParamTable.ColumnEditable = [false true];
parDisp={'\alpha_1','V^G_C'};
params={'alpha1','VGC'};
for i=1:numel(params)
app.AllParamTable.Data{i,1}=parDisp{i};
app.AllParamTable.Data{i,2}=app.p.Param.(params); %app.p.Param is a struct, and will always return numeric.
end

Accepted Answer

Dave B
Dave B on 9 Aug 2021
Edited: Eric Sargent on 12 Oct 2023
Starting in R2022a, the Interpreter property is supported in uistyle.
Previous answer (Aug 9, 2021)
I believe html tags are not currently supported in uitable when in a uifigure (i.e. created in App Designer)
However the greek letter part is a little easier, you can use unicode for this (char(945), or just use an α in your code):
u = uitable(uifigure);
u.Data{1}=char(945); % or u.Data{1}='α';
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Deividas Eringis
Deividas Eringis on 9 Aug 2021
great that solves part of my issue,
if html tags are not supported are there any other ways to use subscripts/superscripts?
Dave B
Dave B on 9 Aug 2021
I don't have a good solution for superscript/subscript. This is really out of the box and I realize far from ideal:
  • You can sort of fake a superscript g (but not G) with unicode: char(7586)
  • There's no subscript for c or C but there is a gamma: char(7527)
uitable(uifigure,'data',{['V' 7586 7527]})

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More Answers (2)

Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 9 Aug 2021
You could use a uihtml component with an embedded table. Of course this table will not be interactive, but if it's for display only then it would work.

Amanda Irving
Amanda Irving on 12 Oct 2023
Starting in R2022a, Interpreter is supported in uistyle:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uistyle.html

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